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#comicchat

Quick and dirty. Based off Microsoft Comic Chat. Uses node.js and websockets.

#Features

• Comic chat
• Rooms
• Notifications
• Text-to-speech via Web Speech API
• Basic relay support for animating your (IRC) chat

#Usage

1. Clone repo.
2. npm install or yarn install
3. Change address of server in client/js/client.js, or supply it via a query param http://example.com?server=ws://localhost:8084
4. Change port of server in server/server.js
5. node server/server.js or npm start, args --port 8084 (default), --historySize 500 (default)
6. Visit client/index.html

#Deploy

• Deploy the client to gh-pages with npm run deploy

#Protocol

Connect to the WebSocket server and start pushing JSON. Subject to change.

#Send

{
    type: 'join',
    room: 'room'
}

• history, join, part require room
• message requires room and text, spoof: true optional for relays

#Receive

• history --- type, history (an array of messages for the requested room)
• message --- type, room, time, text, author

#Relay

If you want to watch your Best Internet IRC Friends in a voiced comic you can configure relay/relay.js and then run it with node relay/relay.js.

#TODO

• Tests

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