This code is not meant to be used in a production environment and is mainly written for personal educational purposes. As such, the build pipe-line and dev environment is likely an overkill for the size of the current project, but can serve as a starting template for larger projects with similar aim.
- Each server should have an instance of a chat room
- The chat room should contain all to current active participants, which are a type of active sessions.
- The server should promt and store the name of each participant when creating a new session.
- When broadcasting a chat messages, the name of the owner of the message should be printed first.
Quick overview of current build:
At the current stage, there is no client build; use the netcat tool to test and connect to the chat server.
The environment contains a .devcontainer folder which contains the configurations to develop the app inside a docker container instance using vscode.
Make sure the Remote container extensions is installed and press CTRL+SHIFT+P. This opens the vscode command window. Enter
>Remote-Containers: Reopen in container
This creates a development container instance with a stand alone boost library based on the image Dockerfile. You can add more configurations for the dev container in the .devcontainer file. See: Developing inside a container for more information on how to do this.
Run the ./cbuild command in a terminal to start a clean build or use vscode or other ide
extension to run and debug the build.