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Top 23 JavaScript Chat Projects
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Project mention: SillyTavern on Android: Termux vs Cloud vs Native App, the Real Trade-offs | dev.to | 2026-07-26
SillyTavern is a Node.js server that happens to draw a chat window. That one architectural fact decides everything about phones: Android treats long-running background processes as a problem to be solved, and a self-hosted web server is exactly the kind of process it solves. Every "SillyTavern on Android" thread is really arguing about a single question. Where should the server live?
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We used it back in the day as well for some non-essential stuff. This post caused me to dig into where hubot stands. It looks like gijoeyguerra upgraded the code to ESM: https://github.com/hubotio/hubot
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Project mention: ConverseJS 13.0.0 – Web-based XMPP/Jabber chat written in JavaScript | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-21
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mirotalksfu
🏆 Self-hosted, open-source WebRTC video conferencing platform for real-time communication and collaboration. A modern alternative to Zoom, built on SFU architecture.
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Project mention: Kick Chat Scraper: archive live chat before it disappears forever | dev.to | 2026-06-01
Kick's chat is delivered via Pusher — a hosted real-time messaging service — rather than a custom WebSocket server. The event name is App\Events\ChatMessageEvent and channels follow the pattern chatroom.{chatroom_id}.
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chat-ui-kit-react
Build your own chat UI with React components in few minutes. Chat UI Kit from chatscope is an open source UI toolkit for developing web chat applications.
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alpaca-electron
The simplest way to run Alpaca (and other LLaMA-based local LLMs) on your own computer
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MiAOU
A chat server with OAuth2 authentication, persistent and searchable history, video and audio, markdown formatting, private and public rooms, stars, votes, embedded games, and many other features
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Haven
Self-hosted private chat: no cloud, no telemetry, no Big Tech. Discord alternative that runs on your own machine. (by ancsemi)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript Chat discussion
JavaScript Chat related posts
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character-card-skills VS SillyTavern - a user suggested alternative
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How to Connect SillyTavern to a Private AI API (NanoGPT) — Setup Guide
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SillyTavern provides a single unified interface for many LLM APIs
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SillyTavern: LLM Front End for Power Users
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SillyTavern: LLM Front End for Power Users
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Kick Chat Scraper: archive live chat before it disappears forever
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Show HN: MiroTalk SFU
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Chat projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | SillyTavern | 32,085 |
| 2 | Hubot | 16,796 |
| 3 | Converse.js | 3,288 |
| 4 | mirotalksfu | 3,078 |
| 5 | xmpp.js | 2,272 |
| 6 | pusher-js | 2,220 |
| 7 | chatgpt.js | 2,042 |
| 8 | igdm | 1,985 |
| 9 | chat-ui-kit-react | 1,768 |
| 10 | react-simple-chatbot | 1,754 |
| 11 | tmi.js | 1,591 |
| 12 | alpaca-electron | 1,310 |
| 13 | chatd | 1,080 |
| 14 | rasa-webchat | 1,018 |
| 15 | Darkwire.io | 949 |
| 16 | cabal-desktop | 915 |
| 17 | aws-lex-web-ui | 816 |
| 18 | Node-Chat | 767 |
| 19 | dcts-shipping | 631 |
| 20 | rpc-websockets | 625 |
| 21 | vue-chat-scroll | 572 |
| 22 | MiAOU | 553 |
| 23 | Haven | 526 |
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