A windows desktop front end for a chat server. Built with dioxus which uses WebView2 for rendering.

• Maven and JDK 18 or later
• Rust
  • Binaries can be found here
• (optional) cargo-binstall. This allows installing built binaries, which makes setup quicker.
• dioxus-cli version 0.7.2
  • cargo install dioxus-cli (or cargo binstall dioxus-cli)
  • Installation guide here for possible problems
• WebView2. If Edge is installed on windows, this probably is already installed.

This'll start up the chat server on port 10000:

git submodule update
cd server
mvn package
java -jar target/ChatServer-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar chatserver.properties

cargo install cargo-binstall
cargo binstall dioxus-cli --version 0.7.2
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Once setup is done, the application can be started in dev mode/demoed by running the following command in the project's directory:

dx run

Note that cargo run will not work as the application doesn't have permissions to load assets from the assets folder.

• Multiple messages can be sent in a single message separated by newline \n?

• Add dividers for message history view. Related files: src/components/message_history.rs and src/components/routes/home.rs They should display:
  • When date changes
  • When topic changes
• Use onkeydown for login input field as it would make writing experience more smooth. Related file: src/components/input_field.rs.
• Use an embedded font instead of fetching it from Google API. Not sure if its cached or fetced every time the app is opened? Related file: src/main.rs.
• Channels list in AppState (src/main.rs) could use a set implementation instead of Vec.
• Refresh button for channels as they're not always up to date.
  • If some implementation for updating channel information is created, showing channel user count would be possible.