Chaya is a fully functional HTML5 Web Chat written in Javascript, utilizing Node.js, Socket.io and jQuery.

It's tested in current Webkit (Chrome, Safari) and Firefox desktop browsers. No IE here, sorry guys! ;)

A Chaya instance is hosted on Heroku.

Feel free to join, you're welcome! :)

It's quite simple and totally free:

• Fork Chaya
• Install Node.js and NPM
• Install Heroku Toolbelt
• Push your chaya fork to another heroku project
• Have a blast!

• add persistence for latest chat messages
• add avatar images, e.g. from twitter or gravatar
• filter markup syntax, prevent XSS =)
• add other cool stuff

Chaya is published under MIT license. Feel free to fork and modify by your needs.

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