Buddy Pond ( Alpha )

Cloud OS and Instant Messenger

https://buddypond.com

Cloud OS
Desktop and Mobile Interfaces
Buddy Lists! Add Your Buddies
Peer to Peer Instant Messaging
Multimedia Pond Chat Rooms
Image and Paint Editors
Audio MIDI Support
Create Media And Send To Buddies
Remix and Send Media With Single Click
Voice and Video Calls With Buddies!
Interdimensional Cable and Live Streaming
Audio Video Visualizations and VFX
Integrated Scripting Language ( BuddyScript )
Desktop download browser size is < 1MB ( Uncompressed )

Making the Internet Fun Again!

No followers. No following. No Problem

All your localhost works offline

Quick Start

Buddy Pond is free use at: https://buddypond.com

Embed Pond Chat On Your Site

It's super easy to embed Buddy Pond Chat on your site. Simply copy and paste the following embed code:

  <iframe src="https://buddypond.com/#pond/Lily"/>

Just replace Lily with your pond name.

see: ./embed.html for code example

Screencasts

April 26th, 2022

April 13th, 2022

Built-in Help Commands

Once you've loaded Buddy Pond you can type the following commands to get help:

Display chat commands

Type /help in any chat window to get help.

BuddyScript Commands

Type /bs in any chat window to see BuddyScript commands.

BuddyScript is an integrated scripting languge in Buddy Pond that allows you to fully control the Desktop Application and all Apps through chat commands.

Contributing to Buddy Pond

No Build Steps. No Transpiling. No hassles.

Download Buddy Pond with `My Buddy`

My Buddy is a companion app that lets you quickly clone and start Buddy Pond locally without having to run any commands. Get it at: https://github.com/Marak/mybuddy

Remember: Buddy Pond and the Buddy Pond AppStore are just plain HTML and JavaScripts with no build steps. You can clone either of these repos and use any HTTP server to run Buddy Pond locally.

Download Buddy Pond with `git`

Buddy Pond Based ( Desktop + Based Apps )

Download Buddy Pond Based

git clone  --depth 1 git@github.com:Marak/buddypond.git
cd buddypond

There will be an index.html file in the buddypond directory. You must serve this index.html from an HTTP server. Any HTTP server will work. You can download My Buddy to host or try using python SimpleHTTPServer for a quick start:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This will start the Buddy Pond application on port 8000. Open http://localhost:8000 in your local browser and you can immediately start adding and messaging buddies.

If you'd like to modify the based Apps see the ./desktop/based/ folder.

Adding / Modifiying Apps in Buddy Pond AppStore

Buddy Pond has an integrated AppStore which allows buddies to easily contribute new applications to the Buddy Pond ecosystem. It's very simple to use. No installation, compile, or transpiling steps are required.

If you'd like to modify Apps see the ./desktop/appstore/ folder.

If you want to add a new application all you have to do is copy and paste an existing App folder and do a single string search and replace.

Once the new App folder has been created you will now be able to open this App via desktop.ui.openWindow('myapp').

Deploying your Buddy Pond

The easiest way to deploy Buddy Pond is to publish this entire folder to any web hosting platform. Since Buddy Pond is just static HTML, it can be hosted almost anywhere. You'll want to make sure your host has HTTPS / SSL enabled.

Buddy Pond REST API SDK

Buddy Pond communicates via REST HTTP API calls to the Buddy Pond Server.

Interactive API Testing Page: https://buddypond.com/sdk/client.html

JavaScript buddypond.js SDK API client: ./sdk/buddypond.js

Building custom Buddy Pond `App`

desktop.use(appName, params) will load Buddy Pond Apps which have an App.load method.

App.load is an async function

For Example:

desktop.boo.load = function (params, next) {
  setTimeout(function(){
    // async `App.load` functions *must* continue with their callback
    next(null, true);
  }, 3000)
}

You may now open App.Boo by calling desktop.ui.openWindow('boo', { foo: 'bar' })

Buddy Pond `Based` Distribution

See: https://github.com/Marak/buddypond/tree/master/desktop/based

Buddy Pond `AppStore`

See: https://github.com/Marak/buddypond/tree/master/desktop/appstore

Linting / `eslint`

The codebase is currently loosely linted. You should be able to contribute to sections of code without asking us to reformat the entire codebase. Please try your best to adhere the best you can to our coding style and .eslintrc.js file.

If you need to lint a file you can install and run eslint

npm install -g eslint@8.12.0 eslint ./path/to/file.js --fix

Buddy Pond Backend Server

So you've made it to the end of the ReadMe.md? Neat.

Buddy Pond consists of a backend server and front-end client.

The server code is currently private access invite-only. We intend to make the server code public in two more weeks.

In order to start your own private Buddy Pond ( not federated ) you can download the Buddy Pond Server at https://github.com/marak/buddypond-server

Once you have your own Buddy Server running you can modify ./sdk/buddypond.js to point to your server endpoint over HTTP.

Marak/buddypond