Add reply to messages functionality in direct chat and group chat (GSoC)

[disha1202]

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Add reply to messages functionality in direct chat and group chat
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Users should be able to reply to messages in direct chat and group chat
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[disha1202]

Please assign

[coderpawan]

• Okay lets modify the schema of the message to include parent id also and if the messsage is top then parent id is set to null.
• creating post api to get the req from /message/:parentid/reply.
• as we hit the reply button on the message a post api would be called
• here we will handle the function and receive the parent text message which would be shown in frontend as a parent message.
• now a input would be provided along with the parent message which would be broadcasted to all the clients connected on web socket/socket.io being it a personal chat or groupchat

I am ready to take this assignment

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[disha1202]

Working on it.

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