we have a nominally working, albeit ugly, chat application! Now I just need to write a talk about deploying shit, and test deploying.

chat-app/build.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+async function main() {
+  const results = await Bun.build({
+    entrypoints: [ "./frontend/index.js" ],
+    outdir: "./static/js/",
+    verbose: true
+  });
+
+
+  if (!results.success) {
+    for (const message of results.logs) {
+      console.error(message);
+    }
+
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+
+main()
+  .then(() => {
+    process.exit(0)
+  })
+  .catch((e) => {
+    console.error(e);
+    process.exit(1);
+  });

chat-app/frontend/index.js

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import m from "mithril";
+import { createWebSocket } from "./websocket";
+
+// on new message event, call m.redraw();
+const messages = [];
+const socket = createWebSocket();
+
+socket.onmessage = function (event) {
+  if (event.type === "message") {
+    const message = JSON.parse(event.data);
+    messages.push(message);
+    m.redraw();
+  }
+}
+
+function newMessageText(name, message) {
+  return [
+    m("span.chatter", name + ": "),
+    m("span.chatter-message", message)
+  ];
+}
+
+const MessageBox = {
+  view: function () {
+    return m(".messages", messages.map(function(message) {
+      return m(".message", newMessageText(message.chatter, message.message));
+    }));
+  }
+};
+
+function clearMessageBox() {
+  const messageBox = document.getElementById("message");
+  messageBox.value = "";
+}
+
+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));
+  clearMessageBox();
+}
+
+const MessageInput = {
+  view: function () {
+    return m("div.chat-input", [
+      m("form", { method: "post", onsubmit: sendMessage }, [
+        m("input", { name: "chatter", placeholder: "Name" }),
+        m("input", { name: "message", placeholder: "Message", id: "message", required: true }),
+        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/state.js

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

chat-app/frontend/websocket.js

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export function createWebSocket() {
+  return new WebSocket("ws://localhost:3000/chat-service");
+}

chat-app/justfile

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+build:
+    bun build.ts
+
+clean:
+    rm -r static/js/*
+
+test:
+    bun test

chat-app/package.json

@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 {
   "name": "chat-app",
   "scripts": {
-    "dev": "bun run --hot src/index.ts"
+    "dev": "bun run --hot src/index.ts",
+    "build": "rm -r static/js; bun build.ts"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "hono": "^4.6.3"
+    "@types/mithril": "^2.2.7",
+    "hono": "^4.6.3",
+    "js-cookie": "^3.0.5",
+    "js-guid": "^1.0.2",
+    "mithril": "^2.2.5"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/bun": "latest"

chat-app/src/chat-room.ts

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ export const chatters = new Array<Chatter>();
 
 export type Message = {
   message: string,
-  timestamp: Date
-  chatter: Chatter
+  timestamp: Date,
+  chatter: string,
 };
 
 export function createMessageString(message: Message): string {
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ export class ChatRoom extends EventEmitter {
   protected messages: Message[];
 
   public constructor() {
-    this.message = new Array<Message>();
+    super();
+    this.messages = new Array<Message>();
   }
 
   public getMessages(): Message[] {
@@ -39,6 +40,11 @@ export class ChatRoom extends EventEmitter {
   public getNewestMessage(): Message {
     const message = this.messages[this.messages - 1];
   }
+
+  // set up the lifetime to clear messages in memory
+  protected pruneMessages(lifetime: number): void {
+
+  }
 }
 
-export const chatRomm = new ChatRoom();
+export const chatRoom = new ChatRoom();

chat-app/src/index.ts

@@ -4,44 +4,55 @@ 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>();
-app.get("/chat-socket", upgradeWebSocket((c) => {
+app.get("/chat-service", upgradeWebSocket((c) => {
   return {
+    onOpen(_event, ws) {
+      chatRoom.addListener('message-added', function (e) {
+        ws.send(JSON.stringify({
+          message: e.message.message,
+          chatter: e.message.chatter,
+          timestamp: e.message.timestamp
+        }));
+      });
+    },
     onMessage(event, ws) {
-      const data = JSON.parse(event.data);
-
-      if (!chatters.find(c => c.name == data.chatter.name)) {
-        chatters.push(data.chatter);
-      }
-
-      const message: Message = {
-        chatter: { data.chatter },
-        message: data.message,
-        timestamp: Date.now() as string;
-      };
+      const { data } = event;
+      const message = JSON.parse(data);
+      message.timestamp = Date.now() as string;
 
       chatRoom.addMessage(message);
-
-      ws.send(JSON.stringify({ message: createMessageString(message) }));
     },
     onClose() {
       console.log("Connection closed.");
     },
-    onError(event) {
-      console.log(event);
+    onError(event, ws) {
+      console.error(event);
+      ws.close();
     }
   }
 }));
 
+// set up the username, somehow
+// set the session for a user
+app.post("/login", async (c) => {
+  const user = await c.req.parseBody();
+  let success: boolean = false;
+
+  if (!users.find((u) => u == user.username)) {
+    users.push(user.username);
+    success = true;
+  }
+
+  return c.json({ success });
+});
+
 // get the HTML and JS from the static repo
 app.use("/", serveStatic({ path: "/static/index.html" }));
 app.use("/*", serveStatic({ root: "/static" }));

chat-app/static/css/main.css

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+.messages .message {
+    padding: 0.5em;
+    border: 1px solid #aaa;
+    border-radius: 5px;
+    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
+}
+.chatter {
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+.chat-input > form {
+    display: flex;
+    width: 100%;
+}
+.chat-input > form > input {
+    padding: 0.7em;
+}
+.chat-input > form > input[name="chatter"] {
+    width: 20%;
+}
+.chat-input > form > input[name="message"] {
+    width: 75%;
+}

chat-app/static/index.html

@@ -2,19 +2,10 @@
 <html lang="en">
 <head>
     <title>A Dumb Chat Application</title>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main.css" />
 </head>
 <body>
-
-<script src="https://unpkg.com/mithril/mithril.js"></script>
-<script src="/js/chat-service.js"></script>
-<script>
-// start the chat web socket
-initChatService();
-
-// render the application
-
-const root = document.body;
-m.render(root, m("h1", "A Stupid Chat"));
-</script>
+<div id="app"></div>
+<script src="/js/index.js"></script>
 </body>
 </html>

chat-app/static/js/chat-service.js

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-function initChatService() {
-    const ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:3000/chat-socket");
-
-    ws.onmessage = function (event) {
-        console.log(event);
-    };
-    ws.onopen = function (event) {
-        console.log("Opening the socket");
-        ws.send(JSON.stringify({ hello: "world" }));
-    };
-    ws.onclose = function (event) {
-        console.log("Closing the socket");
-    };
-    ws.onerror = function (event) {
-        console.log(event);
-    };
-}

notes.md

@@ -13,17 +13,23 @@ Deploy the talk on the blog as well
 
 ## The Dumb Idea
 
-Simple application that does something, like a guess the number or tik-tak-toe
-Something with a frontend and backend to talk about deploying multiple applications.
-Or build it with React
+A simple Chat application built with Hono and Mithril.js
 
-A simple twitte clone
-Mesages on a timeline, living in memory.
+## Talk About the History
 
-Multiplayer tic-tac-toe?
-Chat?
+What was my first deployment?
 
+Using the file manager in cPanel.
+Then using SVN on the server.
+Upgrading to Git, on the server.
+A lot WHM
 
+Developing with Vagrant and virtual machines
+
+Moving to AWS, EC2
+Using VPS providers like DigitalOcean
+
+Building Container images
 
 ## What is Deployment
 
@@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ show some diagrams
 Talk about the SSL cert situation
 Talk about building VM images or containers for deployment
 
-"What about K8s?" I don't know or really care
+"What about K8s?" I don't know or really care, honestly
 
 ## What does Dokku do for us?