khlieng / dispatch

Web-based IRC client in Go.

dispatch

Try it!

Features

• Searchable history
• Persistent connections
• Multiple servers and users
• Automatic HTTPS through Let's Encrypt
• Single binary with no dependencies
• DCC downloads
• SASL
• Client certificates

Usage

There is a few different ways of getting it:

1. Binary

• Windows (x64)
• macOS (x64)
• Linux (x64)
• Other versions

2. Go

This requires a Go environment, version 1.11 or greater.

Fetch, compile and run dispatch:

go get github.com/khlieng/dispatch
dispatch

To get some help run:

dispatch help

3. Docker

docker run \
  -p <http port>:80 \
  -p <https port>:443 \
  -v <path>:/data \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -d khlieng/dispatch

Build

Server

go install

Client

This requires Node.js and yarn.

Fetch the dependencies:

GO111MODULE=off go get github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/...
yarn global add gulp-cli
cd client
yarn

Run the build:

gulp build

The server needs to be rebuilt to embed new client builds.

For development with hot reloading start the frontend:

gulp

And then the backend in a separate terminal:

dispatch --dev

IRC Channel

#dispatch @ irc.libera.chat

Libraries

The libraries this project is built with.

Server

• Bolt
• Bleve
• Cobra
• Viper
• CertMagic

Client

• React
• Redux
• Immer
• react-window
• Lodash

Big Thanks

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