Example WebsocketServer

Description

This repository serves as a minimal example of an elixir websocket server.

plug_cowboy is the only dependency of this project. this project does not use Phoenix framework.

This project has been tested with:

Erlang/OTP 24
Elixir 1.13.4 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 22)

Installation

Clone this repository and run:

mix deps.get
mix run --no-halt

The websocket server endpoint is hosted at:

ws://127.0.0.1:3000/ws

Upon connecting, the server will send message "Hello from websocket server!" to all connected sockets in a 1 second interval.

Useful resources:

• https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.6/manual/cowboy_websocket/
• https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.6/guide/ws_handlers/

Credits:

• https://gist.github.com/alanpeabody/4fae12b420fb50376af4

• https://medium.com/@loganbbres/elixir-websocket-chat-example-c72986ab5778