discord-web-bridge

📊 Project Summary

Note: The stars were lost when making the repository private due to moving the project to an organisation and later again back.

🧪 Research Assistant — Real-Time Communication with Crossbar & Discord

During my time as a research assistant, I explored real-time networking using Crossbar.io, an open-source platform for distributed and microservice applications. Crossbar implements the Web Application Messaging Protocol (WAMP) and supports a Pub/Sub architecture — perfect for event-driven systems.

In my spare time, I built discord-web-bridge, a project that connects a Discord bot/server with a browser-based embeddable chat client. The idea was to let websites host a live chat interface powered by Discord, using Crossbar as the real-time messaging layer between frontend and backend.

Highlights:

Developed a full-stack real-time communication system using WAMP over WebSockets.

Used Crossbar to handle Pub/Sub messaging between the browser client and Discord bot.

Designed the project to be modular and embeddable — a plug-and-play chat widget for any website.

Learned a lot about system architecture, WebSocket communication, and integrating external APIs like Discord.