README.md

tungstenite+mio simple chat server

A super basic implementation of a WebSocket server written in Rust with tungstenite and mio crates. Using a single thread with event loop for non-blocking I/O without async syntax.

I created it to learn basic Rust without the async part, and to get more familiar with WebSockets. It's not really usable in real life, obviously. And by no means it's a good example of how to write in Rust. Likely a bad one.

But in case you, dear reader, see this and want to try it out, to tweak and to learn like I did, be my guest. Mind you, it will only work locally on one machine, and not in Chromium browsers because it doesn't use secure connection (TLS).

If you still want to try, OK, I get it, I've been there. Here's what you do:

1. Install Rust and Cargo if you don't have them.

2. Inside repo's root run

cargo run

This will start the server.

3. Serve fe_example folder using any tool you choose, or simply open the fe_example/index.html. Use FireFox or Safari.

4. Open different browsers or tabs, send message and see it appear everywhere.

Note: FE example is entirely stolen from Brian Holt's repo for his Frontend Masters workshop.