The Complete Open Source Chat Solution

Demo

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

Available from the AppStore:

Get the app for your Android phone:

Now compatible with all Android devices as old as version 4.0.x - download here, even on BlackBerry Passport!

Host your own Rocket.Chat server in four seconds flat:

Try it on Ubuntu:

Deploy on VPS or standalone server

Try it with docker:

docker-compose up

and check it out at http://localhost:80

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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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

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Why Slack when you can Rocket.chat?

Features

• BYOS (bring your own server)
• Multiple Rooms
• Direct Messages
• Private Groups
• Public Channels
• Desktop Notifications
• Mentions
• Avatars
• Markdown
• Emojis
• Sent Message Edit and Deletion
• Transcripts / History
• File Upload / Sharing
• Full text search
• Support for Okta SSO through SAML v2
• Live chat / Messaging call center - Alpha testing now! Issue #519
• I18n - Supports 22 Languages 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 APIs - Ready for testing ...
• Remote Locations Video Monitoring - Early access ...
• Native Cross-Platform Desktop Application Rocket.Chat.Electron - HELP WANTED
• Mobile app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Download on AppStore!
• Mobile app for Android phone, tablet, and TV stick Available now on Google Play!

Roadmap

In Progress

• Support for PostgreSQL: Issue #533, Issue #822
• Native iOS Application Issue #270, Rocket.Chat.iOS - HELP WANTED
• Native Android Application Issue #271 - HELP WANTED
• Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging Issue #36, Issue #268 - HELP WANTED
• API-enabled methods: Issue #202, Issue #454, Issue #455, Issue #759
• Voice calls: Issue #542
• Screensharing: Issue #418

Planned

• Kerberos Authentication: Issue #839
• XMPP Multi-user chat (MUC): Issue #404
• More webhooks: GitLab, Confluence, Jira, Piwik, Wordpress: Issue #233, Issue #525, Issue #637, Issue #638, Issue #747
• Support multiple teams on the same instance / same VPS infrastructure: Issue #658, Issue #630
• Clusterize / Descentralize: Issue #520, Issue #601
• Anonymous use of Rocket.Chat: Issue #604
• File Sharing via P2P and Scalable Multicast: Issue #369, Issue #370
• Anti-virus checking on file uploads: Issue #757

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 tuned and you will see a lot happening here.

Documentation

Checkout Github Wiki (coming soon)

Production Deployment

Ubuntu VPS or server

Follow these deployment instructions.

FreeBSD

Solid five-nines deployment with industry workhorse FreeBSD (coming soon).

Ubuntu Software Center

Easy one click install right from your Ubuntu Desktop (coming soon).

Docker

Use the automated build at our Official Docker Registry

docker pull rocketchat/rocket.chat

sloppy.io

Host your docker container at sloppy.io. Get an account and use the quickstarter

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

or use docker:

git clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.git
cd Rocket.Chat
docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd)":/app danieldent/meteor

Credits

Thanks to Diego Sampaio, Gabriel Engel, Marcelo Schmidt, Rafael Caferati, Rodrigo Nascimento, Sing Li, Aaron Ogle, Graywolf336

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!