Connection UI

[drewlindsey]

A UI should be developed for the user to connect from. The attached image specifies the UI for this connection page. No actual connection should happen at this stage. The form details should be posted to the electron process for later use. We should firstly establish the JSON representation for this form so that we can simultaneously work on the backend process(es).

[dozmus]

One possibility:

{
  "user": {
    "nickname": "cool-user",
    "password": "123",
    "username": "usr",
    "realname": "ethereal-irc"
  },
  "server": {
    "hostname": "irc.rizon.net",
    "port": 6667,
    "ssl": true,
    "channels": [
      "#chat"
    ]
  }
}

We can take default values for username and realname until a later date, but these are necessary to start an IRC connection.

[darwinshameran]

A password key-value pair should be added to the server object, some users might want to access password protected servers.