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Composer gains an emoji picker (static curated unicode list, insert at cursor position) and messages gain Slack/Mattermost-style reactions: react with any emoji, toggle off by reacting again, see who reacted via a tooltip on each pill. Backend: MessageReaction model (unique on message_id+user_id+emoji backs toggle semantics), WS "reaction" envelope broadcasts the full recomputed reaction list per message (same approach as message edits), REST message list embeds reactions so a reload doesn't lose state that only arrived over WS. Frontend: shared EmojiPicker component (anchored popover, Escape/outside- click dismiss via new useEscapeKey hook) used by both the composer and a new hover-revealed reaction trigger on each message row.
KeepItTalking
A web-based team chat service (Mattermost-style, no threaded conversations), invite-only. See ARCHITECTURE.md for the full system design and phased build plan.
Phase 1: auth, open-room CRUD, and single-instance WebSocket chat, backend
- a minimal frontend. Phase 2: private rooms, room roles (owner/admin/ member), and room invites — backend only, see below. Later phases (push notifications, Redis fan-out, the admin portal, the bot/extension system, and production deployment) are tracked as issues in the repo's issue tracker, prioritized.
Structure
backend/— FastAPI + SQLAlchemy 2.0 (async) + PostgreSQL. Seebackend/README.mdfor local setup, migrations, how to create a user (site registration is invite-only — no public sign-up endpoint), and the Phase 2 room-roles/invites API.frontend/— React + Vite PWA (login, room list, chat view). Still Phase-1-only: it doesn't yet call any of the Phase 2 endpoints. A UI redesign is happening separately; frontend work resumes once that lands.
Quickstart
# 1. Postgres (see backend/README.md for details)
docker run -d --name chatapp-postgres \
-e POSTGRES_USER=chatapp -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=chatapp -e POSTGRES_DB=chatapp \
-p 5432:5432 postgres:16-alpine
# 2. Backend
cd backend
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"
cp .env.example .env # then set SESSION_SECRET
.venv/bin/alembic upgrade head
.venv/bin/python -m app.cli create-user alice alice@example.com "some-password"
.venv/bin/uvicorn app.main:app --reload &
# 3. Frontend (in another shell)
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev
Then open http://localhost:5173 and log in with the account created above.
The Vite dev server proxies /api and /ws to the backend on :8000, so no
CORS configuration is needed in development.
Deployment
See DEPLOYMENT.md for the full production runbook — two Debian 13 servers, no containers, matching ARCHITECTURE.md §9.