SwiftNIO IRC Web Client

A small chat-webapp written in plain JavaScript, not using any frameworks. Well, we do use JDENTICON to produce some default chat icons.

The app works standalone, the Client.html file can just be dragged into a browser (make sure the/a IRC gateway is running).

To include it in the Swift IRCWebClient module, we wrap all the resource files in a single Swift file (ClientResources.swift). That means, if the client files are modified, you need to perform a make in the Client subdirectory.

Setup

This is not a work of beauty, but does the job well enough. PRs are very welcome! The goal is to keep it simple, but great.

Model

There is a ClientConnection object which maintains the WebSocket connection to the IRC bridge. The messages are transferred as JSON encoded IRCMessage objects.

The ChatItem essentially contains the "view model". It contains the information which is being rendered in the chat-view (sender, message, read etc).

View Controllers

Of course those are not "real" view controllers, but they follow the same idea :-)

There is the MainVC which represents the window and contains MessagesVC for the chat view and the SidebarVC which contains queries ("private" messages with other users) and channels.

The MainVC also creates and maintains the connection, as well as the dictionary of open channels and user queries.

Styles

The CSS is a simple flexbox based setup.

Thanks go to @slashmo for the original flexbox layout and CSS setup!

Who

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