spikte_chat

Educational chat project in C++ to learn about the Linux networking stack.

Demo

Running

This is an exemple to run this project on localhost with self signed CA, not an exemple of a real TLS app deployment

make chain.pem
make

Then you can run:

• ./bin/spikte_chat server RAW for unencrypted communication or ./bin/spikte_chat server TLS to use TLS encryption
• ./bin/spikte_chat client to run the client interface

Note that the chain.pem file generated must be accessible from the client and the server

Features

Implemented:

• Optional TLS encryption
• Accounts and message persistance using SQLite
• Password storage using Argon2D
• raylib/raygui interface
• Multiple chat rooms support
• Themes

TODO:

General

• Fix bad/not great design choices, there are some here and there, like the state management
• Test a lot of edge cases
• Better error management

Specific:

• The chat role system feels a bit weak on the edge cases
• Add audio
• Maybe the theme should be client sided only and not shared between user of a same chat, it would allow that the theme is per user and not per chat
• Chat history when pressing up arrow
• /help to display availabe commands
• /getMembers to display members (with current status)
• Display who saw a message
• Display the timestamp
• UI support for deleting/editing messages
• UI support for deleting a chat
• Chat owner role transfere
• Informs the user if he tries to use a raw TCP connection when the server uses TLS encryption
• Support for image format (PNG, JPEG, GiF)
• Support for video format (MP4)
• Support for audio message (Does chats use MP3 ? I don't know)