Websockets stuff

This is a websockets project written in Terraform and Python. Your websocket client can connect, subscribe to a topic and receive messages sent to that topic.

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the /terraform directory
3. Run terraform init
4. Run terraform apply

Usage

To connect use the command wscat -c wss://<YOUR_API_GW_INVOKE_URL>

e.g. wscat -c wss://abc123.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dev

Once connected, press enter and the default response will give instructions on usage.

TODO

• Authorization: query string
• Authorization: x-api-key header
• Storage: change dynamoDB to cache e.g. elastic cache
• PING/PONG request/response to prevent client connection timeout
• Redis connection pooling