The Complete Open Source Chat Solution

Demo

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

Download the Native Cross-Platform Desktop Application at Rocket.Chat.Electron

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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Hacker News

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Product Hunt

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

Features

• BYOS (bring your own server)
• Multiple Rooms
• Direct Messages
• Private Groups
• Public Channels
• Desktop Notifications
• Mentions
• Avatars
• Markdown
• Emojis
• Transcripts / History
• File Upload / Sharing
• I18n - Internationalization with Lingohub
• Hubot Friendly - Hubot Integration Project
• Media Embeds
• Link Previews
• LDAP Authentication - LDAP Authentication on Rocket.Chat Wiki
• Face to Face Video Conferencing aka WebRTC (Alpha) - How to video chat
• REST-full APIs - Ready for testing ...
• Remote Locations Video Monitoring - Early access ...
• Native Cross-Platform Desktop Application Rocket.Chat.Electron - HELP WANTED

Roadmap

In Progress

• Native iOS Application Rocket.Chat.iOS - HELP WANTED
• Native Android Application Issue #271 - HELP WANTED
• External popout window for chat with website visitor (like Zopim, Olark, LiveChat, SnapEngage)

Planned

• Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Issue #36 - HELP WANTED
• Full text search
• Kerberos Authentication
• XMPP Multi-user chat (MUC)

Issues

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

Integrations

Hubot

The docker image is ready. Everyone can start hacking the adapter code, or launch his/her own bot within a few minutes now. Please head over to the Hubot Integration Project for more information.

Many, many, many more to come!

We are developing the APIs based on the competition, so stay tunned and you will see a lot happening here.

Documentation

Checkout Github Wiki (coming soon)

Production Deployment

Docker

Use the automated build at our Official Docker Registry

docker pull rocketchat/rocket.chat

Heroku

Host your own Rocket.Chat server for FREE with One-Click Deploy

Development Installation

Prerequisites:

• Git
• Meteor

Now just clone and start the app:

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

Credits

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

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.

Translations

We are experimenting Lingohub. If you want to help, send an email to support at rocket.chat to be invited to the translation project.

Community

Join the the conversation at Twitter, Facebook or Google Plus

License

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

Donate

Rocket.Chat will be free forever, but you can help us speed-up the development!