HTML-Chat

HTML5 implementation of Eterna's web-based IRC chat client to replace the legacy Flash-based implementation

Please note that a rewritten version using Vue.js is planned to improve the readability and extensibility of the codebase. More info will be forthcoming.

As a reference, the chat server currently uses txircd as the IRCd daemon and a custom python-based IRC bot to record recent history.

Setup

This code makes use of the webpack module bundler. In order to run the app, do the following:

• Install NodeJS and npm
• Open a command prompt/terminal, cd into HTML-Chat, and run npm install
• To start a development server, run npm start
• Open a browser and navigate to localhost:9000, then enter your username and password (or leave blank to use without logging in), then optionally a channel if you don't want to post in the main chat (ie if your testing could eb considered disruptive or cause other clients to break)

To create a one-off set of files with webpack, run npm run build:dev for the development build or npm run build:prod for the production configuration

Contributing

Feel free to fork this repository, make some changes, and create a pull request. Your changes will then be revewed, merged, and deployed once accepted. It is encouraged to use a channel other than #global (the default) for testing purposes if it could be disruptive.

Currently compatibility must be maintained between this chat and the legacy Flash chat, until it can be implemented into the game. At that point, more significant changes may be implemented to improve implementations based on IRCv3 functionality and and other functions that would otherwise "break" the Flash chat.

Design and implementation of initial release: @luxaritas (Eterna)