Discreet (codename: ng-web-irc)

Discreet is a self-hosted anonymous chat client based on the IRC protocol implemented over a websocket connection (WebIRC). Written using Angular and Angular-Material.

Features in brief:

• responsive and adaptive layout that works both on desktop and mobile
• supports different locales
• emoji and IRC color codes decoding
• nick auto-complete (by start typing @ and a few initial letters)
• public/private message notifications
• automatic media urls parsing (e.g. gets and displays YouTube video info)
• automatic video playlists with integrated video player
• integrated YouTube video search
• dark theme

Discreet has been tested with InspIRCD with websocket module enabled. You can change server connection properties by editing the file src/assets/server-list.json.

PLEASE NOTE

The file src/app/irc-client-service/irc-client-service.ts only contains a basic and draft implementation of IRC client protocol. Full protocol specifications are available from IRCv3 Specifications.

Due to a bug in the CLI, you might encounter a "Javascript heat out of memory" while running ng serve. This can be fixed by using the following command instead:

node --max_old_space_size=8048 ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng serve

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Serving files in for a specific locale

Run ng serve --configuration=<lang_id> (eg. ng serve --configuration=it for italian).

Implemented locales

• English
• Italian

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/en directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.

Building with locale support

Run npm run build-i18n. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/<lang_id> directory. The dist/index.html file will auto detect client language and redirect the browser to the current locale folder if supported (eg. dist/it for italian), otherwise will fallback to the default language (english).

Running unit tests

Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Further help

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.