SockChat was an experiment to learn about how to write with .net Core, sockets, LiteNetLib and Avalonia. It is a very basic chat client and server that may be useful to other people to help learn from. It is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
At the time of writing, there's a binary of the Windows version of the client available on https://www.dropbox.com/s/76ghrf9u8vb0m2t/SockChatWindows.zip?dl=0 if you want to try it out which is connected to a server I'm running. As it runs off .net core, a build should work on any OS that .net core supports.
This was an experiment (not a production ready tool), so you'll need to set the SERVER and PORT constants in Client.cs to where you want your server to connect.
You need to install the .net Core SDK which you can do on Windows from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download, or on Linux from running https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh.
Once installed:
- Run the server for debugging with
dotnet run --project server - Run the client for debugging with
dotnet run --project client - Run the unit tests with
dotnet test - Publish the client for Windows with
dotnet publish client -c Release -r win10-x64 -o Client-Win64 - Publish the server for Linux with
dotnet publish server -c Release -r linux-x64 -o Server-Linux
With the publish folder, run client.exe
It's recommended to run the server as a service. With a systemd distro such as Debian 10, assuming that you've copied the publish folder to /root/Server-Linux
- Create a Service file in
/root/Server-Linux/SockChat.Servicewith the following contents:
[Unit]
Description="SockChat"
After=network.target
[Service]
User=root
Group=root
WorkingDirectory=/root/Server-Linux
ExecStart=/root/Server-Linux/server
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
- Add the service to systemd
ln /root/Server-Linux/SockChat.service /etc/systemd/system/SockChat.service
- Start the service
service SockChat start