nekocafe

Web chat room 🐱 💬

A chat server using websockets. Send your friends the url and chat through the browser.

• designed for mobile
• no passwords/registration
• 100 line backlog
• hotlinked urls
• embedded images, youtubes, tweets

Installing

npm install -g nekocafe

Running

nekocafe <portnumber>

For https mode, pass your certificates on the command line:

nekocafe <portnumber> <keyfile.pem> <certfile.pem>

Development

npm run dev to build client side (outputs to dist/)

node lib/server.js <portnumber> to run the server (does not need to restart after client rebuild)

or npm run start to run on port 80

Changelog

• 1.3.0 - file uploads
• 1.2.0 - embedded youtubes, tweets
• 1.1.0 - embedded images, remember username/prefs, performance improvements
• 1.0.0 - first release