Rawky

A simple chat app made for self-hosting, not only is this app light-weight and easy to use, but it has security features made for preventing hackers from leaking data using several security techniques I have learnt. This app was primarily just a learning project for SvelteKit, but it just became a full blown app. The tech-stack this app uses is SvelteKit, Prisma + SQLite (you may also use postgres or mysql), and Typescript.

Installation

You can interchange pnpm with your package manager and runtime (for example: bun, npm, deno, yarn etc.) First install all the packages:

pnpm i

Then migrate the prisma database:

pnpm prisma migrate dev

Then finally, start the server:

pnpm dev

For production you can switch to Postgres or MySQL (if you want) then just host it onto Render or Vercel, (what I showed you before was self-hosting a dev server), to self-host the prod server run the following commands:

pnpm build
pnpm preview