Ferdi

🤴🏽 Hard-fork of Franz, adding awesome features and removing unwanted ones.

Download Ferdi

You can find the installers in the latest release assets.

Or use homebrew (macOS only)

$ brew cask install ferdi

(Don't know homebrew? brew.sh)

Ferdi-specific Features

• Removes the counter-productive fullscreen app delay inviting users to upgrade
• Removes pages begging you to donate after registration
• Makes all users Premium by default (#15)
• Using the Ferdi API instead of Franz's servers
• Add option to change server to a custom ferdi-server
• Add "Private Notification"-Mode, that hides message content from notifications (franz#879)
• Add Password Lock feature to keep your messages protected (#41, franz#810, franz#950, franz#1430)
• Add an option to keep individual workspaces always loaded (#37)
• Add universal Dark-Mode via the DarkReader extension (#71)
• Add an option to auto-hide the menubar (#7, franz#833)
• Add "Quick Switch" feature to help you navigate a long list of services (similar to Rambox's Quick Switcher)
• Add "Service Hibernation" that will automatically unload services when they are unused
• Add "Scheduled Do-not-Disturb" feature in which you won't get notifications (similar to Rambox's Work Hours)
• Add CTRL+← and CTRL+→ shortcuts and menu options to go back and forward in the service browsing history(#39)
• Add option to show a browser-like navigation bar on all services
• Add "FERDI_APPDATA_DIR" env variable to set a custom path for storing all data
• Add Process Manager to find services using a lot of resources
• Add "npm run prepare-code" command for development to lint and beautify code
• Improve "About Ferdi" screen to better display versions
• Remove "Franz is better together" popup
• Remove bug that would incorrectly display unread messages count on some services (more info in 7566ccd)
• Makes it possible to edit the "Franz Todo" server
• Makes RocketChat self-hosted generally available (#6)
• Comes with a custom branding proper to Ferdi

Development

Preparations

Clone repository with submodule

$ git clone [email protected]:getferdi/ferdi.git
$ cd getferdi
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Install Linux OS dependencies

Guide: Linux distribution specific dependencies

Use right NodeJS version

Please make sure you are running NodeJS v10 (v10.16.3 suggested). Versions above will throw an errow when trying to install due to an old fsevent dependency

Fix native modules to match current electron node version

$ npm run rebuild

Install dependencies

Run the following command to install all dependencies, and link sibling modules with Franz.

$ npx lerna bootstrap

If you previously ran npm install it sometimes is necessary to delete your node_modules folder before running npx lerna bootstrap.

Run Ferdi Development App

Run these two commands simultaneously in different console tabs.

$ npm run dev
$ npm run start

Be aware that the development database will be reset regularly.

Packaging

$ npm run build

Deliverables will be available in the out folder.

Release

$ git tag v5.3.4-beta.4
$ git push --tags

When pushing a new tag, the CI build will create a draft GitHub release and upload the deliverables in the draft release assets. Wait for all the assets to be uploaded before publishing the draft release.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Bennett 💻 🎨 📖 🤔 🌍 💡 🐛 🖋 🚇 📓 💬 📆 👀	Stefan Malzner 💻 🖋 🎨 📖 🤔 🚇 📆 ⚠️ 🌍	Amine Mouafik 💬 💻 📖 🤔 🚧 📦 📆 👀 🚇 🔍	ZeroCool 💻 🤔	rseitbekov 💻	Peter Bittner 🤔 🐛
Justus Saul 🐛 🤔	igreil 🤔	Marco Lopes 🤔	dayzlun 🐛	Tobias Günther 🤔	AGCaesar 📦
Makazzz 🐛 💻	xthursdayx 💻 📖 🚇 📦

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

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