DropRoom is a high-performance, cross-platform, real-time messaging application featuring secure authentication, live chat rooms, and dynamic profile synchronizations. The ecosystem splits cleanly into a compiled, stateful Go WebSocket engine deployed on AWS and a highly responsive React Native mobile app built with Expo.
DropRoom is not just a chat app; it is a demonstration of handling stateful, high-throughput real-time data across mobile clients. By moving away from standard BaaS platforms (like Firebase) and engineering a custom WebSocket pipeline in Go, DropRoom achieves minimal latency, extreme horizontal scalability, and seamless cross-platform native performance.
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- Framework: React Native via Expo (Managed Workflow with Dev Clients)
- Routing: Expo Router (File-based navigation with typed routes)
- State Management: Zustand (Lightweight global authentication state)
- Authentication: Native Google Sign-In (
@react-native-google-signin/google-signin)
- Language: Go (Golang) 1.26
- Real-time Layer: Gorilla WebSockets (Stateful connection hubs with concurrent write/read pumps)
- Relational Database: Supabase PostgreSQL (User metadata and permanent profiles)
- Document Store: MongoDB (High-throughput real-time message journaling and room history logs)
- Containerization: Docker (Cross-compiled multi-stage containerization)
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS EC2 Virtual Instances
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ React Native Mobile Client (Expo) │
└────────────┬────────────────────────────────────▲───────┘
│ HTTP REST / OAuth │ WS Broadcast
▼ │
┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌────────┴────────┐
│ Supabase (PostgreSQL) │ │ Go WS Hub Engine│
│ (Strict Relational Schema) │ └────────▲────────┘
└───────────────────────────────────┘ │ Write/Read
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ MongoDB Cluster │
│(Document Stream)│
└─────────────────┘