IRCBoks is Web Based IRC Client with persistent connection.

• Multiuser support
• IRC connection will not be closed when you close the browser. Offline message will be delivered when you are online.
• Use Go in server side and AngularJS in client side
• User and chat data stored in mongodb
• AngularJS use websocket to communicate with Go backend

• join
• part
• nick
• msg

More commands will follow. IRCBoks is still in early stage, it still focus in core functionalities.

Download code: git clone https://github.com/iwanbk/ircboks.git

Assuming you already have npm installed:

Go to AngularJS UI directory

cd ui

Install grunt-cli

npm install -g grunt-cli

Install required packages

npm install

Build

grunt

IRCBoks Go server use gpm and gvp to manage dependencies.

Please visit gvp and gpm website for installation details.

cd server
gvp init (only needed once)
source gvp in
gpm install

Of course you can manually install all dependencies, you can find all needed package in Godeps file.

The easiest way is using free plan from mongolab.

It currently assume that you use database named 'ircboks'.

• copy timber.xml.example to timber.xml. It is configuration file for logging facility

cp timber.xml.example timber.xml

• copy config.json.example to config.json. It is configuration file for the server.

cp config.json.example config.json

You need to edit mongodb_uri in config.json. Replace it with your mongodb connection string.

• run it

go run *.go

You can find IRCBoks in http://localhost:3000

You need to register before login. There is no email verification now.

MIT License