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Websockets on FastAPI: Implementing a simple chat with rooms in 20 minutes
- The article outlines a future detailed analysis on developing an anonymous chat in Telegram MiniApp format using FastAPI, WebSocket, Redis, PostgreSQL, Vue 3, and Telegram Mini Apps API for instant messaging and real-time communication.
- It discusses monetization strategies like advertising, considering RichAds as an advertising platform for the MiniApp project.
- The article focuses on understanding web sockets, their operation principles, and WebSocket's advantages in real-time messaging.
- It compares classic HTTP and WebSocket methods, emphasizing WebSocket's benefits like persistent connection, fast operation, two-way communication, and resource-saving capabilities.
- The article then delves into implementing a chat using WebSocket on FastAPI, creating a simple chat application that allows users to create rooms, join existing rooms, and exchange messages in real-time.
- The tech stack utilized includes Python, FastAPI, WebSocket, JavaScript, TailwindCSS, HTML, Jinja2, and deployment on Amverum Cloud.
- It covers the development stages of the project: server part development with WebSocket connection management, creating WebSocket endpoint, client part implementation with HTML pages rendering, and dynamic interface updates using JavaScript.
- Detailed steps are provided for setting up WebSocket connections, handling events like connection establishment, disconnection, receiving and sending messages in real time.
- The article continues with final configurations, launching the application using uvicorn, and explains how to deploy the project on Amverum Cloud with configuration settings.
- It concludes by discussing how to rewrite the WebSocket connection string for deployment on Amverum Cloud and provides a link to view the working code.
- The article encourages engaging with the author's Telegram channel for additional content and hints at a future article analyzing the development of a Telegram bot with MiniApp for an anonymous chat.
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