vex-ui

Vex is an end-to-end encrypted chat platform — a privacy-first communication stack you can host yourself.

Every message is encrypted on your device before it leaves. The server stores only ciphertext and deletes your message after it gets to the intended recipient.

License: AGPL-3.0 — any server modifications must be open-sourced.

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What's in this repo

Package	Description
apps/desktop	Desktop client — Tauri 2.0 + Svelte 5
apps/mobile	Mobile client — Expo + React Native
apps/website	Public website — Vite + Preact + Node API handlers
packages/store	Shared state management (nanostores atoms) + VexService facade
packages/ui	Mitosis design primitives → Svelte + React
packages/eslint-config	Shared ESLint base config + SDK-only import restrictions

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Quickstart

Prerequisites

• mise — manages Node.js and pnpm versions automatically
• Or manually: Node.js 24.x and pnpm 10.x

# Install mise, then let it pick up the pinned versions from mise.toml
mise install

1. Clone and install

git clone https://github.com/vex-chat/vex-chat.git
cd vex-chat
pnpm install

2. Start development

# From the repo root — starts client apps in parallel
pnpm dev