PesterchumOnlineButSilly

A static pure-JavaScript Pesterchum client; not to be confused with the 2014 NodeIRC/Heroku 'Pesterchum Online'!!

Pretty much the only thing I've ever made using JavaScript, so it's really not very good. Hopefully at least passably secure though; all content from the server is escaped and the live server has a fairly strict content security policy. (CSP Evaluator)

An important difference between this and previous PCO clients is that this client is fully client side and connects over a WebSocket connection, this means that:

The hosting server only needs to serve static content.
The hosting server won't act as a proxy, so banning a PCO user will actually ban the user instead of the PCO server like with the previous clients.

Even if this client is kinda bad; it's probably best if future online clients also use a WebSocket connection now that IRC is gaining support for it, it's better than the PCO server having to proxy all messages.

To connect to a server other than irc.pesterchum.xyz just swap out the address in src/pesterchum.js.

Local setup

Just download and open index-src.html, the site is fully static so there's no further setup :3

Setup for web server (without babel)

mkdir dist
cp src/pesterchum.js dist/pesterchum.js
cat dist/pesterchum.js | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl base64 -A

Afterwards you have to put the resulting hash of the script into the integrity fields in index.html's script/preload tags, and ideally also add it to the server's content security header.

Setup for web server (with babel)

Lets the client run on evil old browsers </3

Install dependenies.

npm install @babel/core @babel/cli @babel/preset-env browserify core-js babelify

Run source through browserify + babel, equivalent to running bundle.sh:

./node_modules/.bin/browserify src/pesterchum.js -o dist/pesterchum.js -t babelify
cat dist/pesterchum.js | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl base64 -A && echo

Then input the resulting hashes, same as the previous setup.

Contributing

Note

This section still WIP

Before sending a pull request, if you modified the /src/pesterchum.js file, please run npm run lint This will run ESLint (eslint --fix) and automatically fix problems and enforce style guidelines.

Thanks to:

All the artist collaborating with backgrounds: