Chatspaces

What this is

Chatspaces is a private chat app for sending messages to your contacts. It currently requires Persona for authentication.

Project Information

Current development stage

• Adding in v.1 features and design/interface iterations for MWC (Mobile World Congress)

Features for v.1 (No new features will be added/discussed until post-MWC)

• Search for, add, remove and block users from your contacts list
• Ability to send animated GIFs and static images with messages via WebRTC
• Websocket and SimplePush notification support of unread/new messages
• The ability to send a message to multiple contacts via broadcasting

Features that may be considered/discussed for post-MWC

• Encryption of messages
• Adding contacts from your phonebook
• Cordova integration
• Authenticating through third-party services like Facebook/Twitter
• Integration with Firefox Accounts
• Integration with Presence
• Third-party developer API support

Filing bugs

• Bugs should be filed only for v.1 features for now on https://github.com/mozilla/chatspaces/issues?state=open

On IRC

• Please contact us on irc://irc.mozilla.org/apps
• For main project questions talk to ednapiranha
• For image generation (GIFs, static JPG), local caching questions talk to sole
• For UX/UI/design questions talk to mhanratty or tsmuse
• For anything else, talk to ednapiranha or wenzel

Via email

Email me at jfong@mozilla.com

Thanks!

Supported browsers

• Firefox
• Chrome

Installation instructions

Clone the repository

> git clone git://github.com/mozilla/chatspaces.git

Install node by using brew or through the website http://nodejs.org/#download

Install redis via brew and make sure the server is running: redis-server &

> npm -g install nodemon bower
> cd chatspaces
> npm install
> bower install
> cp local.json-dist local.json
> npm start

Open your browser at the following URL http://localhost:3000

Resetting your database

> ./bin/resetDb.js