WhispaLink: Appwrite Hashnode Hackathon

Team Details

• Ayush Raj - @ayushraj13

Description of Project

WhispaLink is text-based messaging app that allows users to send messages.

Features

• Real-time messaging

• Group creation

• Date and time of sent messages available

• Suggests people you may know during group creation.

• Ease of use

Tech Stack

• Appwrite Cloud

  • Authentication

  • Database

  • Cloud Functions - Node.js

• Vercel

• VueJS

• Tailwind CSS

• TypeScript

Appwrite Authentication

• Single Sign-On enables users to log in to multiple applications and services with a single set of credentials.

• Appwrite authentication is compatible with different platforms and programming languages.

• Appwrite handles the security aspects of authentication, including password hashing, token generation, and session management.

Appwrite Teams

• Team feature simplified the group creation feature for multiple users

Appwrite Database

• Real-time data synchronization feature helped messages to stay in sync from different clients.

Appwrite Cloud Functions

• Appwrite Cloud Functions follow a serverless architecture, meaning we don't have to worry about managing servers or infrastructure.

• Various Events available to trigger the cloud functions. (Ex. Membership creation event)

Challenges Faced

Difficulty in establishing relationship among documents.

• Included relevant data from one document within another document.

Difficulty in figuring out how to give document read and write permission to specific user.

• Solved it by adding scopes 'document.read' and 'document.write' in the API key

Public Code Repo

Github Repo URL

Demo Link

• Demo Video

• Website URL