This is a very simple web server and chat page. There is only one room, no logins, everyone can see what everyone else says. This is intended for internal teams to deploy to the LAN when you can't use normal chat services like IRC or Hipchat because of security policies or whatever.
I built this as a place for teams of programmers, dev ops, testers, etc to be able to more effectively communicate with one another without paying per user or having to use someone else's servers. As such this chat system has a few interesting features to that end:
- Code formatting and syntax highlighting
- Simple image sharing by dragging and dropping an image anywhere on the window and it will show up in the chat (screen shots, cat pictures, memes)
- Simple file sharing of any file, any size, any type by dragging and dropping
- Typically log files are too large, or sending binaries to testers is difficult as they get filtered by enterprise mail filters
Currently it keeps no logs- Stores no user preferences (except username)
- No rooms
- No private messages
No cat pictures (this is priority one to be fixed)No SECURITYminimal security
For a completely local installation on linux:
Mostly stolen from here http://forcecarrier.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/installing-pip-virutalenv-in-sudo-free-way/
Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/xatter/mockingjay.git
Install setuptools first into user local
$ wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
$ python ez_setup.py –user
Then pip:
$ curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py –user
Add ~/.local/bin to your $PATH variable
Then Virtualenv:
$ pip install –user virtualenv
Then activate the virtualenv and install the requirements:
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate (on windows it's > venv\Scripts\activate.bat)
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Then run and connect:
$ python app.py
Point your browser to http://localhost:9000/
Although meant for the LAN it actually does work on Heroku. The live demo is running on Heroku.