tunnelchat

Let's just say IM implementations generally suck. Client/Server architectures are hard ground for quick iterations, and web is ubiquitous, let's use that. I really like Hipchat, so this is a clone of it, for now.

code

Hey yes i hear you, all the code is in one file... and also no unit-tests. Ugly! Expect exploding code for now.

features

• google auth login
• file upload and sharing
• oembed support
• skype emoticons (http://www.messagemagic.net/emoticons.htm)
• userlist

Todo:

• desktop notifications

• @mentions

• activity leds (and time away)

• long messages truncation

• chat history

• message search

• user status

• slash commands

• uploaded file preview

• mobile client

• api

• github pubsubhubbub subscription for commits, issues, comments and pull requests http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/hooks/#pubsubhubbub

• code posting

• xmpp compatibility with xhtml visualization

ideas to test:

• message pinning (personal)
• message +1 (shared)
• conversation trees
• hubot integration

install

Using docker:

cd into the project
docker build -t chat .
docker run -p 2111:8888 -i -t chat  # change 2111 with your external port

Normal way:

apt-get install redis-server
mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 tunnelchat
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py