tmessage

This is a lightweight and low bandwidth CLI tool which can be used for group communication right from your terminal (isn't this cool ; ) )

Clone this project using the command git clone https://github.com/Haider8/tmessage.git
Setup your python3 virtual environment using this command virtualenv -p python3 venv
Switch to your venv using source venv/bin/activate
Now install the required dependencies by running pip install .
Now to run tmessage use tmessage --user [YOUR USERNAME] --port [PORT (optional)] --server [YOUR BROKER IP OR URL (optional)] --dont-store (optional)
By default, messages are stored in JSON format in the messages folder. To turn this feature off, simply use the --dont-store argument.
To test this you can open different terminal tabs.

If you don't want to create your own broker it's perfectly fine as tmessage is using a default broker test.mosquitto.org. Therefore, you can then run tmessage using python msg.py --user [YOUR USERNAME].
If you happen to use this on a different port, it can be specified as - tmessage --user [USERNAME] --port [PORT]. If omitted, it defaults to 1883.
This project uses an API for the authentication of users. Default API Url is this. If you want to use your own authentication API you can deploy our tmessage-api locally(for testing) or on some cloud (the default API is hosted on Heroku). Then, you can set that Url in .env file like this TMESSAGE_API_URL=http://localhost:8080 or TMESSAGE_API_URL=<your-api-url>.

You can first fork tmessage and can then clone using command git clone https://github.com/[YOUR USERNAME]/tmessage.git
Please send PRs using new branch and not master
Commit message should perfectly describe the code changes done by you

Would love to hear any suggestions, feedback, feature requests or any other issue