Convos - Multiuser chat application
Convos is a multiuser chat application that runs in your web browser.
The supported chat protocol is currently IRC, but Convos can be extended to support other protocols as well.
See convos.by for more details.
The backend is powered by Mojolicious, while the frontend is held together by the progressive JavaScript framework Vue.
Quick start guide
Snap Install
Install Convos in seconds on Ubuntu and other snap supported Linux distributions with:
snap install convos
Installing a snap is very quick. Snaps are secure. They are isolated with all of their dependencies. Snaps also auto update when a new version is released.
Shell Install
curl https://convos.by/install.sh | sh -
./convos/script/convos daemon;
Start the daemon
That's it! After the two commands above, you can point your browser to http://localhost:3000 and start chatting.
Invitation code
Note that to register, you need a invitation code. This code is printed to screen as you start convos:
[Sun Aug 21 11:18:03 2016] [info] Generated CONVOS_INVITE_CODE="b34b0ab873e80419b9a2170de8ca8190"
Other deployment strategies
Note! "Heroku" should be deployed from the stable branch.
Branch overview
stable
"stable" is the branch you should use, if you want to clone and run Convos, instead of just running the install command above.
master
"master" is for developers. It's mostly stable, but might require extra tools and packages to run.
gh-pages
"gh-pages" is the source for http://convos.by, which is built with github pages.
backup/convos-0.8604
backup/convos-0.8604 is a snapshot for the first iteration of Convos.