A chat server with authentication, persistent and searchable history, markdown formatting, video, private rooms, stars and votes, and many other features.

Introduction/Gallery

You can see it in action or use it on http://dystroy.org/miaou.

To discuss the code and feature of Miaou, please come to the dedicated room.

• Public and Private rooms
• Video Chat
• Persisted
• Searchable
• graphical view of chat's history
• Markdown formatting, with keyboard shortcuts
• Message preview
• Image boxing
• Pings, optional desktop notification and loud pings
• Cross-rooms pings, ping autocompletion
• pluggable architecture
• Votes
• Pin and star
• Message replying
• Message edition
• Permanent message links
• In place links (no new window, no passive extracts)
• Authorization levels and administration
• OAuth2 authentication (Google, StackExchange, GitHub, Reddit)
• Global unique user names to prevent impersonation
• Initially reduced long messages
• Mobile touch devices optimized interface
• Plugins enabling the verification the chat user is linked to external profiles
• A plugin enabling embedded real time multi-player games (today featuring the Tribo game)
• private messaging
• image upload (using imgur API)
• client side bot API (see example as userscript)
• server side bot API, pluggable commands framework

As described in the help, Miaou is mostly coded in JavaScript. Stuff includes node.js, PostgreSQL, OAuth2, socket.io, WebRTC, express, Bluebird, Redis, Jade, Passport.js, hu.js, jQuery, sass/scss, Uglify-js and nginx.

A vagrant configuration is available to help you set up a development environment quickly. See more information at its documentation.

If you have the ability and will to contribute, come and discuss with us. The best landing place is usually the Miaou room where you can ping @dystroy or @Florian. We'll show you where we manage ideas, reports, tasks and you'll see the list of tasks waiting for a volunteer.

And, last thing, always test before doing a pull request.

Most of Miaou follows the MIT License. Exceptions are specified here.

Copyright (c) 2014 Denys Séguret <http://dystroy.org/>