[ADVAPP-227]: Introduce Channels for Realtime Chat

[danharrin]

Ticket(s) or GitHub Issue

• https://canyongbs.atlassian.net/browse/ADVAPP-227

Technical Description

Thanks to an excellent foundation, I was able to implement this with minimal changes to the existing system. However, I made a few cleanups and improvements where I noticed things.

I also updated the message UI to fix some sizing and show the author name and message time. This is not visible in the screen recording as it was implemented after:

Types of changes

What types of changes does your code introduce? Put an x in all the boxes that apply:

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Content or styling update (Changes which don't affect functionality)
• DevOps
• Documentation

Screenshots (if appropriate)

Screen.Recording.2024-01-18.at.18.48.03.mp4

Any deployment steps required?

A deployment step could be a command that needs to be executed or an ENV key that needs to be added, for example.

• Yes, please specify
• No

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Quality Gate passed

Kudos, no new issues were introduced!

0 New issues
0 Security Hotspots
No data about Coverage
9.2% Duplication on New Code

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