fire-tcp-chat

A fun chat project that only needs a telnet/netcat client!

Setup

To configure this project, you need a MongoDB database for user authentication. You can host your own or get one here for free! Add this to the .env file, along with your port of choice. Obviously, to access this outside of your network, you'll need to port-forward.

Use

Start the server with npm start.
Use nc (ip) (port) in a bash terminal to connect to the server. The UI is built for an 80x24 terminal, as there is no way to check terminal size over TCP without a client app, which defeats the purpose.

Warnings and info

• This isn't even kind of encrypted. The password should be something simple and not one that you use for other sites Encryption is now supported and can be configured by placing the contents of a Let's Encrypt certificate folder (like the one given by CertBot) into the ./certs directory and adding the ENABLE_TLS=true environment variable. You can also disable non-TLS clients using the DISABLE_INSECURE=false environment variable. View the example.env for neccessary configuration.
• You can give admins a red name color by adding admin: true to their MongoDB document. That, however, is the only thing it does

Customization

You can set an ASCII image to appear by changing the contents of ascii.txt. You can also change the server messages in the config.json file. It looks like this:

{
    "name": "The SheepStudios Server",
    "shortName": "SheepStudios",
    "acronym": "SSN",
    "emoji": "🐑",
    "topBorder": "█-█",
    "bottomBorder": "█"
}