/Tacit-Desktop

A telegram-like chat application built with node-webkit

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Tacit-Desktop

A telegram-like chat application built with node-webkit.

This app is going to be rewrite with angular 2 and electron.

Desktop across Mac,Windows,Linux

You should try node-webkit, this amazing project gives you the power to develop all-platform apps.

Current features

  • Authentication and authorization
  • Message sending and receving
  • Blur alert and attention request
  • Chat logs locally saved with lowdb
  • Image drag-to-send (point-to-point,no cloud saving)
  • Audio record and send (no compression)

Todo features

  • Image compression
  • Audio compression (FFmpeg)
  • Emoji
  • Voice,Video Chat (WebRTC)

To run

Simply download and unzip the files, after that, go into the directory and use:

npm install

The reason for a incomplete zip is that I didn't include any node_modules for easier download and upload.

Prepare the newest version of node-webkit, use the appropriate package to load.