jackal
Prosody IM
Our great sponsors
jackal | Prosody IM | |
---|---|---|
38 | 23 | |
1,439 | 587 | |
- | - | |
0.0 | 9.4 | |
9 months ago | 4 months ago | |
Go | Lua | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
jackal
-
VoceChat server is ready! Rust written 17MB open sourced chat server--the easiest to host/intergrate chat server you can find.
Take your pick. Or just look here.
-
Extend XMPP Authorization
XMPP servers have the ability to use backend authenticators that can share existing auth infrastructure. This is commonly used for LDAP integration at corporations, for instance. The jackal XMPP server, since it is in Go and this is /r/golang, appears to have some support for this although it appears you'd have to go learn GRPC, the docs basically assume you know what you're doing with that already.
-
Instant Messaging Service | Approach | Protocol | Libraries
How much traffic do you expect ? If you don't expect much traffic and you are happy with single server (or maybe a sharded cluster) you may be able to pull something off by yourself. Otherwise you should go with something already proved, like XMPP. Have a look at https://github.com/ortuman/jackal
-
Instant Messaging: XMPP or GO Socket
Raw sockets are just a "plain pipes" that can carry any logic, while XMPP is already well defined, long established protocol for instant messaging. Check it out: - XMPP Server - XMPP client lib
-
What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
jackal
- Jackal 0.62.0 released - Golang XMPP Server
- Jackal 0.61.0 Released – Go XMPP Server
- Jackal v0.60.0 released – Go XMPP Server
Prosody IM
-
My collection of Ansible roles for self-hosting everything with Rocky Linux and FreeIPA
XMPP server using Prosody
-
Lua: The Little Language That Could
lua on its own right can be fun too! If you are looking for a project to contribute to, there's for instance the Prosody XMPP server that's written in it, and contributes to the betterment of internet by promoting federated protocols.
There's also the http://prosody.im/ XMPP server that's written in Lua, and it's very successful there. The other major XMPP server implementation is in Erlang and they are equally praised, so that should tell something about Lua's versatility.
-
VoceChat server is ready! Rust written 17MB open sourced chat server--the easiest to host/intergrate chat server you can find.
Take your pick. Or just look here.
- Chat Server
-
A History of Lua
You can write largish standalone application in Lua and it is not always a poor choice - Prosody [1] first comes to mind. But qualities which make it a good embedded language make it less _attractive_ for other uses.
Lua has very simple syntax and small stdlib which allows its implementation to be very small - you can add Lua to your application and not increase its size significantly. But when the size is not a concern most programmers prefer languages with rich, powerful syntax lots of features and batteries-included stdlib (which is completely opposite of Lua).
-
Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?
If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios.
-
Google Chat through Matrix questions
Selfhosting XMPP is pretty simple with https://prosody.im/
- Need Advice on Instant Messaging
-
Ask HN: What is your recommended stack for real time chat?
My choice, because it's the stack I know very well, would be Prosody ( https://prosody.im/ - I'm one of the devs) and a web client such as Converse.js ( https://conversejs.org/ ). XMPP is highly extensible, Prosody is highly modular, which make them a good foundation for building on top of.
That said, the right stack is generally the one that matches your requirements, and (if this isn't primarily a learning exercise) whatever you're most familiar with. The hardest part of building a Discord or Slack-like in 2022 is actually not the technical stuff. There are many comprehensive open-source products already out there that compete with these companies, such as Mattermost, RocketChat and Element.
What are some alternatives?
etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
ejabberd - Robust, Ubiquitous and Massively Scalable Messaging Platform (XMPP, MQTT, SIP Server)
easegress - A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system
Openfire - An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
Metronome IM - Metronome IM, lightweight xmpp server with advanced microblogging features.
Sparta - go microservices, powered by AWS Lambda
Tigase - Tigase XMPP server patched for Kontalk
traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy
matterbridge - bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
Aegis - Serverless Golang deploy tool and framework for AWS Lambda
Lets-Chat - Self-hosted chat app for small teams