SilentCord

A Discord inspired small and simple web-app to chat with people on a local area network with a room-based system.
Built with NodeJS, TypeScript (ExpressJS, WebSockets) & Vanilla HTML / CSS.
Uses bcrypt to securely store user passwords.

Preview Screnshots

Login Page

Landing Page

Chat room

Demo App

There is a demo version of the app hosted on render.com.
It has signups closed and the following accounts can be used instead:

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USERNAME  |  PASSWORD |
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 admin    |   admin   |
 user1    |   user    |
 user2    |   user    |
 user3    |   user    |
 user4    |   user    |
 user5    |   user    |
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Contributing

Documentation

View Server Docs

TODO

• Ratelimits to prevent DDOS - #2
• Attachments - #3
• Voice Chat - #1
• React frontend instead of Vanilla HTML/CSS

Guide

• Feature requests can be made by opening a new issue.
• If you are working on something, make a new issue with proper description and title describing what you are working on (new feature, bug fix etc.).
• If you are looking for stuff to contribute in, check out the Issues Tab and the todo list.
• Ensure your issue isn't a duplicate of an already existing issue.
• If working on something mentioned in the todo list, after creating the issue add your issue's URL as a hyperlink in front of the todo list item and remove the list item in your final PR before closing the issue. e.g.
  • Todo item 1 - #00
• Make sure you communiate with the other contributors if working on the same issue to save time and prevent duplicate work.

Local Development Setup

• Ensure you have Node.js and npm installed.

• Clone this repo, cd into project's root directory.

• Install all dependencies:
  

  npm i

• Create the .env file at the root of the project

  • Sample .env file:

    SECRET_ENCRPYTION_KEY = "7"
    IS_DEMO_WEB = "0"
    

• Start Application server:

  npm start

  This command cleans the access tokens & previously built code, runs the typescript build command & hosts the server.

• Specific commmands:

  •   npm run clean

    Clean the access tokens, previously built code in /dist and other temp files if any.

  •   npm run build

    Runs the typescript build command

Project structure

will be updated soon

Credits

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