🎀 Rusty Chat

Rusty Chat is a simple, TUI-based chat application built with Rust using the cursive crate for the user interface and tokio for asynchronous networking. It allows users to connect to a chat server and exchange messages in real-time.

Project Structure

• src/bin/server,rs: The server-side implementation that handles incoming connections and broadcasts messages to all connected clients.
• src/bin/client.rs: The client-side implementation that connects to the server, sends messages, and displays incoming messages in a TUI.

Supported Platforms:

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows (untested)

Installation

1. Ensure you have Rust and Cargo installed. You can install it from rustup.rs.
2. Install using cargo:

   cargo install rusty-chat-app
   
   

3. Run the server:

   rusty-chat-server
   
   

4. In a new terminal, run the client:

   rusty-chat-client 
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Running the Application locally

1. Make sure you have Rust and Cargo installed. You can install it from rustup.rs.

2. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/arjav0703/chat-app.git
   
   

3. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd chat-app
   
   

4. Start the server:

    cargo run --bin server
   
   

5. In a new terminal, start the client:

   cargo run --bin client 
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Acknowledgements

I used this (https://youtu.be/653rafFNBmA?si=mjYuBcQNu69gOYtM) video as a reference to build this project.