/tulip

Experimental Zulip client built with React

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

tulip Build Status

Experimental Zulip client built with React

Heroku

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Feature List

  • List of Streams on left panel
  • List of Messages in middle panel
  • List of Users in right panel
  • Draft.js editor in bottom panel
  • Unified Search on top panel
  • Home, Private Messages, Starred Messages, @-messages and Settings on top panel
  • Unified Settings page
  • On Private Messages page, left panel to have abbreviated list of users for group chats

Design

  • Dark grey left and right panels
  • Smooth scrolling
  • Emojis, gifs and image uploads as first class features (as important as text!)
  • White space!
  • Larger click/tap areas
  • No pointy cursor on left / right panel :)
  • Larger / more visible timestamps
  • Time -> moment.js for older timestamps
  • Better way to display which stream / thread a message is in
  • Better way to set which stream / thread a message is going to go to
  • Easier way to subscribe / unsubscribe from streams (without having to go to a settings page)

Nice to haves

  • Pulling profile images from RC API
  • Some way to go to a user's RC profile

Editor

Search

  • Filter all three panels
  • Search stream names (both subscribed and unsubscribed)
  • Search user names
  • Search messages in all streams, not just subscribed ones

Message Results Priorities

  1. Starred messages
  2. Private messages
  3. Messages in subscribed streams
  4. Messages in unsubscribed streams