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.
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.
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).
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.
The CSS is a simple flexbox based setup.
Thanks go to @slashmo for the original flexbox layout and CSS setup!
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