RPNow is a self-hosted, web-based roleplay chat website.

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For non-technical users who just want to deploy a server, there is a helpful guide here!

However, if you're interested in building the project from source, or modifying the server, read on.

• Go 1.16+
• Node 12+
• Nodemon (optional, but helpful for a pleasant development experience)

If you have GNU Make installed, then simply open a shell in the project root and run make.

Otherwise, you can execute the individual steps manually:

# Build the web frontend
cd views
npm install
npm run build

# Build the server
cd ../server
go build -o ../rpnow

# The built server executable will now be at the project root
cd ..

For a fast and pleasant development experience, it's nice to be able to rebuild and reload the server every time you change a source file. To do that for RPNow, run these two things:

• Web Frontend: Open a shell in the "views" directory. If you haven't already run npm install, do that first. Then, run npm run watch, which will watch and rebuild the JavaScript.
• Server Backend: Open a shell in the "server" directory. Make sure you have installed Nodemon (npm install --global nodemon) and then run nodemon. This will keep the server running at http://localhost:13000.

RPNow is more-or-less feature-complete. While it's possible that I may add features in the future, it is quite likely that the project will remain dormant for months or years.

If I become aware of any security issues, I will try to address them in a timely manner.

See LICENSE

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