Real-time Chat App with FastAPI

Live Demo: https://www.ponderpal.chat

Swagger UI: https://api.ponderpal.chat/docs

Admin: https://api.ponderpal.chat/admin/ (login: bekzod, password: bekzod)

Frontend with Vue 3 and Vuetify 3, see repo

Tech Stack:

• FastAPI, Websockets, Pydantic 2
• Postgres (asyncpg), async Redis (PubSub and Cache)
• SQLAlchemy 2
• Database migrations with Alembic
• Poetry for dependency management, containerization with Docker/docker-compose
• Linting and Formatting with Ruff

High level functionality description

• Fully asynchronous: FastAPI, Postgres, Redis
• JWT HTTP-only cookies authentication (access, refresh tokens)
• Horizontal Scalability with Redis PubSub
• Rate Limiting (Throttling)
• FastAPI background tasks:
  • uploading photos to cloud
  • updating non-essential info
• Message status confirmation: sending, sent and read
• Read status tracking with one field per user per chat
(last read message) instead of tracking 
individual message read status
• User status tracking: online, inactive and offline
• User is typing tracking
• Google Oauth2 authentication:
  • Frontend retrieves access token
  • Backend verifies and gets user data
• Store files in AWS S3 bucket in production and StaticFiles in local development
• Modern Admin panel with sqladmin

Local Setup

• Configure necessary variables in src/config.py
• Create network: make network
• Build and run: make build-up (runs on port: 8001)
• Apply migrations: make upgrade
• Follow logs: make logs
• Run tests: make test