Flet-Chat

🚀 Features

• Real-time messaging
• User authentication and authorization
• Group chat functionality
• Message history and search
• Responsive UI design
• Docker support for easy deployment

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Flet - A framework for building interactive multi-platform applications in Python
• Backend: FastAPI - A modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python
• Database: PostgreSQL - A powerful, open-source object-relational database system
• ORM: SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library
• Data Validation: Pydantic - Data validation and settings management using Python type annotations
• Containerization: Docker and Docker Compose

🚀 Getting Started

Follow these steps to get Flet-Chat up and running on your local machine:

Prerequisites

• Docker and Docker Compose
• Python 3.11 or higher

Starting the Application

1. Start the Backend Services

   Navigate to the project root directory and run:

   docker-compose up -d
   

   This command will start the PostgreSQL database, Redis, and the FastAPI backend service.

2. Start the Frontend Flet App

   a. Create a virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv
   

   b. Activate the virtual environment:

   • On Windows:

     venv\Scripts\activate
     

   • On macOS and Linux:

     source venv/bin/activate
     

   c. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

   d. Run the Flet application:

   python main.py --web  # also possible: flet run
   

This will launch the Flet application, and you should see a window open with the chat interface.

3. Accessing the Application

• The Flet frontend application will be running as a desktop app.
• The FastAPI backend will be accessible at http://localhost:8000.

📚 Documentation

For comprehensive documentation on Flet-Chat, please refer to our GitHub Wiki. The wiki provides detailed information on installation, usage, architecture, and more.

For API-specific documentation, once the application is running, you can access:

• Swagger UI: http://localhost:8000/docs
• ReDoc: http://localhost:8000/redoc

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

📞 Contact

For any questions or feedback, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.

Happy chatting! 🎉