github.com/LoipesMas/accord @v0.2.0

Instant messaging chat system over TCP.
Written in Rust with tokio-rs. Packet design and handshake inspired partially by Minecraft.

Features

• Standalone server
• GUI client (using druid UI toolkit) with customizations via config file
• TUI client
• Encryption
• Sending images (via clipboard)
• Server management (banning, whitelists, etc)

Short-term goals

• Improve GUI experience (sidebar with active users, loading up past messages and more)
• Verify that the encryption is secure
• Add more features

Long-term goals

• Figure out long-term goals

The Stack

• Server:
• tokio-rs
• postgres
• GUI:
• tokio-rs
• druid

Setting up accord server

1. Obtain accord-server binary.
   Currently only method is to compile it yourself.

git clone https://github.com/LoipesMas/accord.git
cd accord
cargo b -p accord-server --release

1. Set up postgresql database somewhere.
   Refer to postgres instructions for how to do that.
2. Launch accord-server. It will error something about connecting to the database, but we just need the default config.
3. Edit the config (probably located in ~/.config/accord-server/config.toml) with correct postgres credentials.
4. Launch accord-server again, this time it should connect.
5. Done!
   Now clients can connect.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Features, ideas, bug fixes, anything.