About Hamoni

a friendly chat API and SDK

Hamoni is a service that provides SDK for integrating chat into web and mobile applications. You don't need to know about low-level details of adding realtime conversation to your app nor architecting and scaling it. We provide you with simple and easy to use SDK and handle all other details at the backend

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Hamoni Updates

  • Progress so far includes allowing an API to remove a user from a group. Database has been changed to use CouchDB. The link contains a description of what's available
    Posted by p_mbanugo
  • This update comes with added functionality to the JS client SDK. It now supports creating and joining groups.
    Posted by p_mbanugo
  • For the first week, I wanted to test if this idea of mine was something I could build. I started of the first day building a landing page on ProductHunt and telling a few friends what I'm going to be working on for the rest of November. Next up was picking my technology stack and I decided to focus on Javascript SDK and APIs to allow for one-on-one chat. I chose nodeJS for my backend with no idea of a storage system to store data for applications, users and groups. I was thinking of storing some information in neo4j and some in either CouchDB or MongoDB. I decided to leave the worry for later and focus on making an easy to use API. I chose to use PouchDB with in-memory adapter while I still thought of which database(s) to settle for, so everything the app stored was in-memory.

    Packaging the JavaScript client as a library consumable via the browser is done using Webpack. I spent time trying to get babeljs plugin and uglify to work with webpack with no success. I skipped it and went forward to using babel-minify plugin for webpack to minify the file. After that came the phase of learning to deply to AWS . I decided to use AWS as they're supporting the hackathon. For me, the documentation wasn't easy to follow and after 2 days of trying to learn and deploy my nodejs backend, I gave up on using it and deployed the backend on Heroku. For the JS client SDK, I kept it a GitHub repo and wasn't ready to put it on npm. I also made a sample app with it to show how it works.
    Posted by p_mbanugo