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+# Chat Documentation
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+## API Documentation
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+`POST /api/message/send` Post a message with JSON body values of: `name` & `body`
+
+Will return JSON with `status` and `reason`.
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+`GET /api/message/messages.json` Returns a json file of all the messages
+
+## Chat Planning
+
+Clientside js will register & check login of users, if login is correct will ask for a random token.
+Backend will generate token, store it, and then send it to the client to set as a cookie.
+Whenever user sends a message, client will send message & token and backend will check if token matches.
+
+Chat backend is going to switch from json to websockets as described in [issue#3](https://git.lavender.software/erin/lila-chat/issues/3).
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+Frontend should also eventually [display pronouns](https://git.lavender.software/erin/lila-chat/issues/4), display user roles, show commands differently from regular text, and *possibly* have emote support too.
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