SVChat

A simple chat app built with SvelteKit and Apache Cassandra

💻 Techstack

• Cassandra and SQLite for storing messages and user data respectively
• Docker for easier deployments
• SvelteKit and TypeScript for backend
• TailwindCSS and ShadCN Svelte for frontend
• SocketIO for communication between connected clients

🐋 Deploying (Docker)

To deploy with Docker, you will need to have both docker and docker-compose installed.

1. Pull down the compose.yaml file

   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arithefirst/svchat/refs/heads/master/compose.yaml -o compose.yml
   

2. Edit the service details
   Open compose.yaml in the editor of your choice and replace the following enviroment variables:

   • ORIGIN: The URL of your production deployment (no trailing slash)
   • CASSANDRA_USER: Database Username
   • CASSANDRA_PASSWORD: Database Password
   • MINIO_ROOT_USER: S3 Bucket Username
   • MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD: S3 Bucket Password

3. Start the stack

       docker-compose up -d # Starts detatched
       docker-compose up # Starts attatched
   

4. Done!
   Yes, it's really that easy! You can now access your deployment at http://hostname:3000, where hostname is the hostname or IP Address of your machine.

🚀 Deploying (Manual)

Tip

This installation method is not reccomended. Unless you have a specific reason not to use Docker, we suggest you do so! Our docker image is kept fully up-to-date and gets re-built on every push to the repository.

1. Setup Apache Cassandra

2. Setup Minio

3. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/arithefirst/svchat
   

4. Install deps
   In this example, I use bun, but any NPM compatible package manager should work just fine!

   bun install
   

5. Run DB Migrations
   Running the DB Migrations sets up the tables in the SQLite users DB, and allows for functional user authenticaton.

   bun run migrate
   

6. Set Enviroment Variables
   In order for the server to connect to Cassandra and Minio, the credentials need to be set in .env. You will also need to set the production URL of your instance, to make sure CORS dosen't throw a fit.

   # Example '.env' file
   CASSANDRA_USER=admin
   CASSANDRA_PASSWORD=admin
   MINIO_ROOT_USER=minioadmin
   MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=minioadmin
   ORIGIN=http://localhost:3000
   

Warning

The above DB and S3 credentials are just for example, and it is highly reccomended that you change them for security purposes.

7. Build

   bun run build
   

8. Start the server

   bun run production
   

9. Done!
   You can now access your deployment at http://hostname:3000, where hostname is the hostname or IP Address of your machine.