RESTHeart Webchat

This example uses Angular and RESTHeart WebsSocket API to create a basic chat application.

For more information refer to the Change Streams section in the RESTHeart documentation.

Requirements

• Node.js 12+
• RESTHeart (6+)
• MongoDB (3.6+)

If you have docker installed, the provided docker-compose.yml file containes all that is needed.

Quick start

You need node 12.x and npm 6.x to build and run this project.

• Install yarn npm install --global yarn (yarn version >= 1.20.x but < than 2.x)
• Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:SoftInstigate/restheart-webchat.git
• Run the following command to download and run the latest RESTHeart version ./bin/restart.sh -p restheart
• Create message collection and define change stream stage

curl -u admin:secret -X PUT localhost:8080/messages -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "streams": [
        {
            "stages": [
                {
                    "_$match": {
                        "_$or": [
                            {
                                "operationType": "insert"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ],
            "uri": "all"
        }
    ]
}'

• Run yarn to install the required dependencies
• Start the angular application with yarn start --configuration=local