Ask HN: What's the simplest chat back end I can set up in the next 3 days?

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    • Elixer does seem tailor made for this sort of thing, but I’ve never used it so I can only recommend you try [feathersjs](https://feathersjs.com/). Setting up a chat backend with it was fairly straightforward, but your mileage may vary as it does force some abstractions that you may not want.

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