Hey the chat works now a bit.

chat-app/frontend/components/ChatApp.js

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-import m from "mithril";
-import { MessageBox } from "./MessageBox";
-import { LoginForm } from "./Login";
-
-export function createChatApp({ ws, session }) {
-  return {
-    view: function () {
-      return m("div", { class: "container" }, [
-        m("h1", "A Stupid Chat Application"),
-        m(LoginForm)
-      ]);
-    }
-  };
-}

chat-app/frontend/components/Login.js

@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-import m from "mithril";
-import Cookies from "js-cookie";
-
-export function LoginForm() {
-  let loggedIn = false;
-
-  async function login(e) {
-    e.preventDefault();
-
-    const formData = new FormData(e.target);
-
-    const res = await m.request({
-      method: "POST",
-      url: "/login",
-      body: formData
-    });
-
-    if (res.success) {
-      Cookies.set('logged-in', true);
-    } else {
-      Cookies.remove('logged-in');
-    }
-  }
-
-  return {
-    oninit: function() {
-      loggedIn = !!Cookies.get('logged-in');
-    },
-    view: function() {
-      return m("form", { action: "/login", method: "post", onsubmit: login }, [
-        m("label", { for: "username" }, "Username"),
-        m("input", { type: "text", name: "username" }),
-        m("input", { type: "submit", value: "Login" })
-      ]);
-    }
-  }
-}

chat-app/frontend/components/MessageBox.js

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-import m from "mithril";
-
-export const MessageBox = {
-  view: function () {
-    return m("div", { id: "message-box" }, "Do Something");
-  }
-}

chat-app/frontend/index.js

@@ -1,10 +1,62 @@
 import m from "mithril";
-import { createChatApp } from "./components/ChatApp";
 import { createWebSocket } from "./websocket";
-import { Sessions } from "./session";
 
-// open the WS to the server
+// on new message event, call m.redraw();
-const ws = createWebSocket();
+const messages = [];
-const session = new Sessions();
+const socket = createWebSocket();
-const ChatApp = createChatApp({ ws, session });
+
-m.mount(document.getElementById("app"), ChatApp);
+socket.onmessage = function (event) {
+  if (event.type === "message") {
+    const message = JSON.parse(event.data);
+    messages.push(message);
+    m.redraw();
+  }
+}
+
+function newMessageText(name, message) {
+  return `${name}: ${message}`;
+}
+
+const MessageBox = {
+  view: function () {
+    return m(".messages", messages.map(function(message) {
+      return m(".message", newMessageText(message.chatter, message.message));
+    }));
+  }
+};
+
+function sendMessage(e) {
+  e.preventDefault();
+  const form = new FormData(e.target);
+
+  const message = {};
+
+  for (const [key, value] of form.entries()) {
+    message[key] = value;
+  }
+
+  socket.send(JSON.stringify(message));
+}
+
+const MessageInput = {
+  view: function () {
+    return m("div", [
+      m("form", { method: "post", onsubmit: sendMessage }, [
+        m("input", { name: "chatter", placeholder: "Name" }),
+        m("input", { name: "message", placeholder: "Message" }),
+        m("input", { type: "submit", value: "Send" })
+      ])
+    ]);
+  }
+};
+
+const Chat = {
+  view: function(vnode) {
+    return m("div", [
+      m(MessageBox),
+      m(MessageInput)
+    ])
+  }
+};
+
+m.mount(document.getElementById("app"), Chat);

chat-app/frontend/login.js

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import m from 'mithril';
+
+// login to the server
+function login(e) {
+
+}
+
+export const Login = {
+  return m("form", { action: "/login", method: "post", onsubmit: login }, [
+    m("label", { for: "username" }, "Username"),
+    m("input", { type: "text", name: "username" }),
+    m("input", { type: "submit", value: "Login" })
+  ]);
+};

chat-app/frontend/session.js

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-export class Sessions extends EventManager {
-  constructor() {
-    this.users = [];
-  }
-
-  userExists(user) {
-    return !!this.findUser(user);
-  }
-
-  findUser(user) {
-    return this.users.find(u => u.username === user.username);
-  }
-
-  addUser(user) {
-    if (!this.userExists(user)) {
-      this.users.push(user);
-      this.emit('user-logged-in', user);
-    }
-  }
-
-  clearUser(user) {
-    if (this.userExists(user)) {
-      const index = this.users.indexOf(user);
-
-      if (index > -1) {
-        this.users.splice(index - 1, 1);
-        this.emit('user-removed', user);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}

chat-app/frontend/state.js

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+const state = {};
+

chat-app/package.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "chat-app",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "bun run --hot src/index.ts",
-    "build": "rm -r static/js && bun build.ts"
+    "build": "rm -r static/js; bun build.ts"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@types/mithril": "^2.2.7",

chat-app/src/chat-room.ts

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ export const chatters = new Array<Chatter>();
 
 export type Message = {
   message: string,
-  timestamp: Date
+  timestamp: Date,
-  chatter: Chatter
+  chatter: string,
 };
 
 export function createMessageString(message: Message): string {
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export class ChatRoom extends EventEmitter {
 
   public constructor() {
     super();
-    this.message = new Array<Message>();
+    this.messages = new Array<Message>();
   }
 
   public getMessages(): Message[] {

chat-app/src/index.ts

@@ -4,12 +4,10 @@ import type { ServerWebSocket } from "hono";
 import {
   chatRoom,
   createMessageString,
-  type Chatter,
   type Message
 } from "./chat-room.ts";
 
 const app = new Hono();
-const users: string[] = [];
 
 // Set up the chat socket
 const { upgradeWebSocket, websocket } = createBunWebSocket<ServerWebSocket>();
@@ -19,22 +17,15 @@ app.get("/chat-service", upgradeWebSocket((c) => {
       chatRoom.addListener('message-added', function (e) {
         ws.send(JSON.stringify({
           message: e.message.message,
-          chatter: e.message.chatter
+          chatter: e.message.chatter,
+          timestamp: e.message.timestamp
         }));
       });
     },
     onMessage(event, ws) {
-      const data = JSON.parse(event.data);
+      const { data } = event;
-
+      const message = JSON.parse(data);
-      if (!chatters.find(c => c.name == data.chatter.name)) {
+      message.timestamp = Date.now() as string;
-        chatters.push(data.chatter);
-      }
-
-      const message: Message = {
-        chatter: data.chatter,
-        message: data.message,
-        timestamp: Date.now() as string
-      };
 
       chatRoom.addMessage(message);
     },
@@ -42,7 +33,7 @@ app.get("/chat-service", upgradeWebSocket((c) => {
       console.log("Connection closed.");
     },
     onError(event) {
-      console.log(event);
+      console.error(event);
     }
   }
 }));