beam.io

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Beam.io is an IRC client powered by GitHub Electron, Node.js and open web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (ES5 and AngularJS).

beam.io v0.1.0-alpha4

:question: Why choose to use beam.io?

Since its creation in 1988 (27 years ago!), IRC has been one of the greatest and most widely supported chat protocols ever. However, IRC clients themselves have barely changed, looking almost no different from 10 years ago, and only barely different from the oldest clients such as ircII.

So, we set out to create a modern, user-friendly client that would be aesthetically pleasing, while remaining practical and streamlined so that it's still easy to chat with others. In addition to all of this, we wanted to make the client cross-platform, fast and quick to set up. This led to the creation of beam.io, which we hope has all of these features, and more.

:star: Current Features

Channels and private messaging
Identicons for quick, visual representation of users
All core IRC commands
Graphical interface available for most common commands (e.g. /join)

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Planned Features

Improved, responsive UI
Plugin system
Theming system
Connection to multiple networks

:bug: Known Bugs

beam.io will not work if the path to it contains accents or other non-ASCII characters

Workaround: Move beam.io to a path without accents.

All Bugs

Please see this list for all known bugs.

:construction: For Developers :construction:

:wrench: Building beam.io

git clone https://github.com/Aurora0000/beam.io
cd beam.io
npm i
npm i electron-prebuilt -g
electron .

:package: Packaging beam.io

(assuming build dependencies installed already)

npm i electron-packager -g
./build.js platform arch
(valid platforms: windows, darwin, linux,
 valid archs: x86, x64)

Releases are dropped into releases/beam-platform-arch.zip. Do not commit release zips!

:octocat: Collaborating

Pull requests are welcome. All code must be in ES5 (that means no CoffeeScript, no TypeScript, no ES6!).

Licenses

AngularJS

Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Google, Inc. http://angularjs.org

License: MIT

angular-moment

Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Uri Shaked and contributors

License: MIT

identicon.js

Copyright (C) 2013 Stewart Lord

License: BSD

jQuery

Copyright (C) 2005-2015 jQuery Foundation, Inc.

License: MIT

PNGLib

Copyright (C) 2010 Robert Eisele

License: BSD

angular-scroll-glue

Copyright (C) 2013 Luegg

License: MIT

node_modules

For other modules, see the respective LICENSE files in the node_modules directory.

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