HyperChat

A fast, secure, and open-source chat app designed for developers and gamers, developed by Justsnoopy30.

Site Link

https://hyperchat.dev

Contributing

To be able to contribute, you'll need some way to test your changes. Refer to the prerequisites and local installation instructions below.

Prerequisites

• Self-signed TLS certificate and key
  KEY: openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -new -nodes -keyout key.pem -out csr.pem
  CERT: openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in csr.pem -signkey key.pem -out server.crt
• Local mongodb database

Local Installation

1. Clone the repo
2. Install dependencies with npm
3. Create a .env file in the root directory of HyperChat, with the following variables set:
   CERT_PATH (TLS certificate path)
   KEY_PATH (TLS key path)
   MONGODB_CONNECTION_URI (Connection URI to your local mongodb server)
   PORT (Port to listen on for the web app)
4. Start the server with ./StartWebApp.sh and visit the web app on localhost, with the port you set in the .env file.

Contact

You can contact me on Discord with my username and tag: Justsnoopy30#0001
Or, you can join the Discord server for my projects with this invite: https://discord.gg/XsAddwQkXF

Licensing Note

All code is licensed under AGPL-3.0 except for external libraries and assets licensed under their own license. All rights stay reserved to me for code I have written.