Dialectica-ai/dialectica-ai

AI Summary: This bug report indicates that messages sent and received within a chat room disappear after the page is reloaded. The expected behavior is for messages to persist across page reloads, suggesting an issue with message persistence or retrieval mechanisms.

AI Summary: The WebSocket connection URL is hardcoded to `http://localhost:5003` in `client/src/lib/socket.ts`, preventing the application from connecting to a remote server in production or different development environments. The issue proposes using an environment variable, `NEXT_PUBLIC_SOCKET_URL`, to make the URL configurable, falling back to the localhost default if not set.