The Complete Open Source Chat Solution

Demo

Checkout the latest version at http://rocket.chat

About

Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.

It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

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Your own open source Slack-like chat

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An open source Web based, channel based chat system (a la Slack) built using Meteor, the full stack JavaScript development platform.

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Para los programadores que quieran ofrecer un chat en su web

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Un chat de código abierto que puedes añadir a la web

Installation

Prerequisites:

• Git
• Meteor

Now just clone and start the app:

git clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.git
cd Rocket.Chat
meteor

One-Click Deploy

Deploy on Heroku:

Features

• Direct Messages
• Private Groups
• New message alerts
• I18n

Roadmap

The development team uses Trello to track progress and discuss new features.

Changelog

Changelog can be found in the HISTORY.md file.

Issues

Github Issues are used to track todos, bugs, feature requests, and more.

Documentation

Checkout Github Wiki (coming soon)

Credits

Thanks to Diego Sampaio, Gabriel Engel, Marcelo Schmidt, Rafael Caferati e Rodrigo Nascimento

Emoji provided free by Emoji One

Performance monitoring provided by Kadira

Contributions

We Need Your Help!

A lot of work has already gone into Rocket.Chat, but we have much bigger plans for it!

So if you'd like to be part of the project, please check out the roadmap and issues to see if there's anything you can help with.

Community

Join the the converation at Twitter, Facebook or Google Plus

License

Note that Rocket.Chat is distributed under the MIT License.