Designers.im

Web IRC client, built with Node.js

Demo → http://designers.im/

Motivation

Freenode’s #DN is a channel for software designers. Unfortunately, most designers find all the effort in setting up and using IRC off putting. Ideally there would be a client that requires them to simply click one button to get chatting. Bonus points if it looks good.

Roadmap

• Logging
• Link previews
• Mobile friendly
• Expand link preview support; add video embedding
• Darg & drop image upload (imgur)
• Theme support and dark theme
• Move configuration to a single file
• Web notifications

Developing

Before you start please note that a lot is currently hardcoded for #DN specifically.

• Make sure you have the latest version of Node.js and NPM installed
• Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/0x263b/Designers.im.git
• Install Node dependencies npm install
• Run node server.js

Libraries in use

• Angular.js + Angular Sanitize
• lodash
• IRC.js
• Express.js
• Socket.io
• Cheerio
• Request
• EventStream
• Sass

Icon by Marian Mraz

License

MIT