The ultimate Free Open Source Solution for team communications.

Rocket.Chat is an open-source fully customizable communications platform developed in JavaScript for organizations with high standards of data protection.

We are a MERN based application enabling real-time conversations between colleagues, with other companies or with your customers, regardless of how they connect with you. The result is an increase in productivity and customer satisfaction rates.

Every day, tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and in organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat to keep their communications completely private and secure.

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Using our self-managed offerings you can deploy Rocket.Chat on your own server, or you can use SaaS Rocket.Chat. We offer support for both community as well as commercial plans.

Cloud Hosted Rocket.Chat

https://cloud.rocket.chat/trial

Local development

Prerequisites

You can follow these instructions to setup a dev environment:

• Install Node 14.x (LTS) either manually or using a tool like nvm (recommended)
• Install Meteor: https://www.meteor.com/developers/install
• Install yarn: https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/install
• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.git
• Run yarn to install dependencies

Starting Rocket.Chat

yarn dsv

After initialized, you can access the server at http://localhost:3000

Starting Rocket.Chat in microservices mode

yarn turbo run ms

After initialized, you can access the server at http://localhost:4000

Installation

Please see the requirements documentation for system requirements and more information about supported operating systems. Please refer to Install Rocket.Chat to install your Rocket.Chat instance.

Feature Request

Rocket.Chat/feature-requests is used to track Rocket.Chat feature requests and discussions. Click here to open a new feature request. Feature Request Forums stores the historical archives of old feature requests (up to 2018).

Community

Join thousands of members worldwide in our community server. Join #Support for help from our community with general Rocket.Chat questions. Join #Dev for needing help from the community to develop new features. Talk with Rocket.Chat's leadership at the Community Open Call, held monthly. Join us for the next Community Open Call.

Contributions

Rocket.Chat is an open source project and we are very happy to accept community contributions. Please refer to the How can I help? for more details.

Credits

• Emoji provided graciously by JoyPixels.
• Testing with BrowserStack.
• Translations done with LingoHub.

Mobile Apps

In addition to the web interface, you can also download Rocket.Chat clients for:

Learn More

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Become a Rocketeer

We're hiring developers, support people, and product managers all the time. Please check our jobs page.

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Any other questions, reach out to us at our website or you can email us directly at contact@rocket.chat. We’d be happy to help!