hack.chat is a minimal, distraction-free, accountless, logless, disappearing chat service which is easily deployable as your own service. The current client comes bundled with LaTeX rendering provided by KaTeX and code syntax highlighting provided by highlight.js.

A list of software developed for the hack.chat framework can be found at the 3rd party software list repository. This includes bots, clients, docker containers, etc.

This is a backwards compatible continuation of the work by Andrew Belt. The server code has been updated to ES6 along with several new features including new commands and hot-reload of the commands/protocol. There is also documentation and a changelog.

Prerequisites

• node.js 8.10.0 or higher
• npm 5.7.1 or higher

Developer Installation

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/hack-chat/main.git

2. Change the directory: cd main

3. Install the dependencies: npm install

4. Launch: npm start

   If you change the websocketPort option during the config setup then these changes will need to be reflected on line 60 of client.js.

Live Deployment Installation

See DEPLOY.md

• If you are modifying commands, make sure it is backwards compatible with the legacy client and you update the documentation accordingly.
• Use the template to learn how to create new commands.
• Use two space indents.
• Name files in camelCase.
• Scripts that do not default to strict mode (such as modules) must use the 'use strict' directive.

• Marzavec - Initial work
• MinusGix - Base updates
• Neel Kamath - Base Documentation
• Carlos Villavicencio - Syntax Highlighting Integration
• OpSimple - Modules Added: dumb.js & speak.js
• Andrew Belt, https://github.com/AndrewBelt, for original base work
• wwandrew, for finding server flaws (including attack vectors) and submitting incredibly detailed bug reports
• Everyone else who participated in this project.

This project is licensed under the WTFPL License.