⚡ A fast, lightweight, and secure chat protocol, client and server, written in Go.

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⚡ A fast, lightweight, and secure chat protocol, client and server, written in Go.

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⚠ IMPORTANT: This project is still a work-in-progress. I strongly discourage installing this on a public-facing server as it could potentially harm your security and privacy. See the roadmap for the progress of this project.

Bolt is intended as a modern replacement for IRC. I started this project because I feel like there aren't many open source chat protocols that follow modern standards.

Not only do I think it's a great fit for an IRC replacement; it might even be suitable for a replacement of present-day proprietary protocols and chat applications, such as Discord and Slack. Bolt comes with a nifty text-based user interface, but since it uses its own protocol, it's possible to build a GUI client in, say, Electron. (please don't, use Tauri)

Roadmap

The project boards for Bolt can be found here.

References

Author

Kees van Voorthuizen (@keesvv)

Branding

The branding for this project can be found in this repository.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Owner
Bolt
⚡ A fast, lightweight, and secure chat protocol, client and server, written in Go.
Bolt
https://github.com/boltchat/bolt https://boltchat.keesvv.nl
Comments
  • Message timestamps should be generated by the server

    Message timestamps should be generated by the server

    At this moment, clients trust the evt.CreatedAt param, but the value of this param is generated on the client side, which is not trustworthy. evt.RecvAt will be the solution to this as it will be generated by the server.

  • Visual bug, backspace doesnt remove text in msg> box

    Visual bug, backspace doesnt remove text in msg> box

    When entering a message and pressing backspace the character doesnt get removed. Instead a space is entered. When sending the message the backspace is done and the message is send correctly. When using to many backspace you are able to remove the nickname and time image seen here in the last message

  • `build:serverContainer` target is confusing and should be renamed

    `build:serverContainer` target is confusing and should be renamed

    The build:serverContainer target as defined in magefile.go has a rather confusing name, because people might think this target creates a Docker image.

  • Client should close when the server closes

    Client should close when the server closes

    At this moment, the client (TUI) stays open after the server has been closed. All newly emitted events will, of course, be ignored, and the client does not know whether the connection is still alive or not.

  • Closed connections are not getting disposed correctly

    Closed connections are not getting disposed correctly

    This pretty much speaks for itself. Closed connections are not removed from the conns slice, which causes the server to still attempt to broadcast events to closed connections.

  • Feature: Identities

    Feature: Identities

    This feature adds the ability to store and specify a so-called 'Identity' when connecting to a bolt.chat instance.

    • fix(tui): prevent arrow keys being printed for the time being
    • refactor(config): move getConfigRoot to config/util.go
    • feat(identities): add Identities (experimental)
  • The client does not treat message delimiters properly

    The client does not treat message delimiters properly

    Solution: use delimiters to untangle events from each other. This can be achieved with the built-in json.Decoder by hooking it up to TCP connections.

    EDIT: this appears to be a client-side issue. The server correctly uses delimiters when sending data, but the client does not act on those delimiters and instead attempts to unmarshal every incoming chunk of data.

  • User slugs should be sent by the server

    User slugs should be sent by the server

    At the moment, clients are responsible for displaying user slugs (the part after the # in usernames) which can lead to confusion. Instead, the server should send these slugs to clients.

  • `errs.Emerg` does not cleanly exit the TUI

    `errs.Emerg` does not cleanly exit the TUI

    When the errs package wants to quit the program due to an error, the TUI does not exit cleanly, which causes a corruption in the shell and requires the user to restart their terminal window.

  • Buffer update glitch on overflowed events

    Buffer update glitch on overflowed events

    When the buffer reaches the last line before the prompt, the tcell.Screen instance does not update correctly without s.Sync() being explicitly called. This operation causes the terminal to occasionally tear up, which is not the intended behaviour.

    Instead of managing the buffer by myself, it might be a better idea to use tcell's built-in tcell/views package for managing virtual screens/buffers. This also allows for vertical (and possibly even horizontal) scrolling.

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