jay-tux/dotchat

Simple, proof-of-concept, custom-protocol chatting system (not meant for actual use)

Dotchat

A simple, proof-of-concept, custom-protocol chatting system

Features

• Secure traffic using TLS
• Custom protocol allowing arbitrary messages
• Users, channels and messages
• Channel ownership
• Database using SQLite
• Database managed using ORM
• Separate thread per connection
• Reusable connections
• Thread manager
• TUI for client
• TUI for server
• Server background workers
• Message paging

Dependencies

All dependencies are managed using Conan. The build system used is CMake.

Client dependencies

• OpenSSL 3.0.3 (GitHub, ConanCenter)

Server dependencies

• OpenSSL 3.0.3 (GitHub, ConanCenter)
• SQLite3 3.37.2 (GitHub, ConanCenter)
• SQLite ORM 1.7.1 (GitHub, ConanCenter)

Future dependencies

• ncurses (version TBD) (Own Site, ConanCenter)