One On One Chat application | Spring boot & WebSocket | By Alibou

Explore the world of WebSockets with Alibou, your experienced software engineer guide. If you missed our previous session delving into the magic of WebSockets and creating a lively group chat application, catch up here.

Today's focus is on real-time communication, as we build a one-on-one chat application that ensures private, secure conversations. Taking it a step further, we'll persist these chats in a MongoDB database.

Before diving into the code, a special mention for those keen on deepening their understanding of WebSockets. If you haven't checked out the introduction in the previous video, find the link in the description here.

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👨‍💻 I'm Alibou, excited to guide you through today's exploration. Let's embark on this coding adventure together, building a one-on-one chat application, uncovering WebSockets intricacies, and mastering the art of data persistence in MongoDB.

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• Features
• Installation
• Technologies

• One to one chat application
• Secure communication
• Persistent chat

Provide step-by-step instructions on how to install and set up your project locally.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ali-bouali/one-to-one-chat-spring-boot-web-socket

# Change into the project directory
cd your-project

# Build the project
./mvnw clean install

This project is mainly implement using the following technologies

• Websocket
• Spring Boot 3.x.x
• MongoDB
• Javascript
• HTML
• CSS