ifvictr / asciicam

👨‍💻 Video chat through the terminal using ASCII art. Built at Hack Lodge Summer 2019, Bay Area.

asciicam

👨‍💻👩‍💻 Video chat through the terminal using ASCII art. Built at Hack Lodge Summer 2019, Bay Area.

Installation

Packaged binaries installable via npm will be available soon. Below are the instructions for the development setup.

git clone https://github.com/ifvictr/asciicam

Usage

Client

cd asciicam/cli
# Install dependencies
yarn
# Start the client
node -r ts-node/register index.ts

Usage: index.ts [options] [command]

Options:
  -h, --help                              output usage information

Commands:
  create|c [options] [passphrase]         Create a new chat room, optionally locked with the specified passphrase
  join|j [options] <roomId> [passphrase]  Join the specified chat room

Server

cd asciicam/server
# Install dependencies
yarn
# Start asciicam server in production mode…
yarn run prod
# …or development
yarn run dev