bpicolo / kip

Electron-based IRC client with react

Kip

Kip Electron-based IRC client with react

Getting started

cp config.example.js config.js // Configure as desired

npm install && grunt babel && grunt copy && npm start

kip's Issues

OSX colored emoji come out as two characters: The base + a box with the color -_-

Context menu support

Right-click should have relevant menus wherever it may be

We don't need allll of bootstrap

Could trim it down if desired. Mostly needed layout stuff (because layout from scratch is a pita)

Noticeable delay starts ~600-700 message rerenders at once

Definitely can me improved on overall, but good to have a baseline

Support for newlines

Figure out if we properly get new nicks reconnect

Should be able to delete inline images. (or entire messages?)

Never know when something nsfw will pop up lets be serial.

/clear would be useful too

Fix scrolldown

In an effort to avoid the scroll-to-bottom-when-I'm-scrolled-up-on-purpose issue, I implemented a dumb way to prevent it. It managed to break scrolling to bottom when switching tabs.

When images are inlined, they also will not reliably allow us to scroll to the bottom. We should always lock to the bottom unless we've scrolled up on purpose

Clicking on a notification should bring the app to foreground

Should show some sort of scroll bar for the chat window

Changed my mind on this. It's helpful to know when you're not at the bottom

Need a logo. All the cool projects have logos

Settings menus

Default electron menus pretty much useless in the distributable, and most things in config.js should be supported in a menu

Should show disconnects/reconnects, try to automatically reconnect

Should attempt to scroll to bottom on window resize

Refactor pub/sub

Refactor all the pub/subbing to some class which we can pub/sub on. This would allow not ipc strategies and simplify support for things like alternate protocols

New-style imports break pretty much all relevant test mocking solutions

Via babel. Lets move back to old requires just so we don't have to deal with that. Sillllly.