LiveConnect 🔗💬

A full-stack real-time chat application with text messaging, video/audio calling, built using Microservices, Clean Architecture, and Dockerized deployment.

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🚀 Features

• 🔒 JWT Authentication & Role-based Access
• 💬 Real-time 1-on-1 and Group Chat (Socket.IO)
• 🎥 WebRTC-based Video & Audio Calling
• 📨 In-App Notifications
• ☁️ Scalable Microservice Architecture
• 🧱 Backend built with Clean Architecture principles
• 🐳 Dockerized Microservices with optional Kubernetes support
• ⚙️ CI/CD with GitHub Actions

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🧰 Tech Stack

Frontend

• React (with Zustand/Redux)
• Tailwind CSS or Chakra UI
• Socket.IO client
• WebRTC

Backend

• Node.js + Express
• MongoDB or PostgreSQL
• Redis (cache/pub-sub)
• Socket.IO server
• JWT for Auth
• RabbitMQ / Kafka (optional for event streaming)

DevOps & Infra

• Docker + Docker Compose
• Kubernetes (optional)
• GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
• NGINX or API Gateway

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📁 Monorepo Structure

liveconnect/ ├── gateway-api/ # API Gateway for routing ├── auth-service/ # Authentication microservice ├── user-service/ # Handles user data and profile ├── chat-service/ # Chat logic + socket communication ├── call-service/ # WebRTC signaling logic ├── notification-service/ # Push or socket notifications ├── frontend/ # React client ├── shared/ # Common utils/interfaces ├── docker-compose.yml # Compose file └── README.md

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🧱 Clean Architecture (Example - chat-service)

chat-service/ ├── src/ │ ├── controllers/ │ ├── use-cases/ │ ├── repositories/ │ ├── models/ │ ├── routes/ │ └── services/ ├── config/ ├── app.js └── server.js

🛠️ Setup Instructions

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• Docker & Docker Compose
• (Optional) Kubernetes (minikube/k3s)
• MongoDB/PostgreSQL (used via containers)

Clone & Run

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/liveconnect.git
cd liveconnect
docker-compose up --build

src/ ├── adapters/ │ └── http/ │ ├── controllers/ │ │ └── auth.controller.ts │ └── routes/ │ └── auth.routes.ts │ ├── application/ │ └── auth/ │ └── auth.usecase.ts │ ├── domain/ │ ├── entities/ │ │ └── user.entity.ts │ └── repositories/ │ └── user.repository.ts │ ├── infrastructure/ │ └── database/ ├── connection/ └── mongo.connection.ts │ ├── models/ │ └── user.model.ts │ └── repositories/ │ └── user.mongo.repository.ts │ ├── shared/ │ └── utils/ │ └── hash.ts │ └── server.ts