boring company chat

a macOS native AppKit cocoa swift3 chat app.

The idea came from https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/

it uses Moya/RxSwift (Network abstraction layer)

Hearst-DD/ObjectMapper (Simple JSON Object mapping)

daltoniam/Starscream (Websockets)

Alamofire and AlamofireImage (Elegant HTTP Networking)

realm-cocoa (database replacement for Core Data/SQLite)

useful links

• https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
• https://slack.com
• https://about.mattermost.com
• https://rocket.chat
• https://ryver.com
• https://www.bitrix24.com
• http://moxtra.com
• https://fleep.io

plans

So I want to build an "open source slack replacement" with the following goals:

• Native macOS client first, in swift, with good memory
• NO WebKit or HTML parsing code, all messages are displayed as text with some cocoa font formating
• Images can be displayed inline, but this will NOT be a mini chrome running.
• Links can be hot, but they will open default browser on the mac
• Offers peer-to-peer no server solution for small teams that can handle that
• Offers slack style company owns the data no peer to peer needed

building

• sudo gem install cocoapods
• pod install
• then open boring-company-chat.xcworkspace not the project
• run from xcode

data on your hard drive is stored at:

• ~/Library/Preferences/higher.team.chat4work.plist
• ~/Library/"Application Support"/higher.team.chat4work/