Hack.Chat v2

This is a backwards compatible continuation of the work by Andrew Belt https://github.com/AndrewBelt/hack.chat. The server code has been updated to ES6 along with several new features- including new commands and hot-reload of the commands/protocol.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

    node >= 8.10.0
    npm >= 5.7.1

Installing

Clone this git and cd into the directory. These steps will get a development env running:

npm install

Or on a Windows machine with Yarn installed:

yarn install

Then:

node main.js

The configuration script will execute the initial server setup by requesting input. Follow the steps until it finishes:

Note: npm/yarn run config will re-run this utility.

You will now be asked for the following:
-     Admin Name, the initial admin username
-     Admin Pass, the initial admin password
-           Port, the port for the websocket
-           Salt, the salt for username trip
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prompt: adminName:  admin
prompt: adminPass:  ****

prompt: websocketPort:  (6060)
prompt: tripSalt:  ************

Config generated! You may now start the server normally.

You may now begin development or deploy to live system with a node process manager.

Deployment

After configuration, push everything except the node_modules folder to the live server and re-run:

npm install

You can now run start the server software with a process manager like PM2.

Authors

• Marzavec - Initial work - https://github.com/marzavec

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the WTFPL License - see the http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ file for details

Acknowledgments

• Andrew Belt https://github.com/AndrewBelt/hack.chat