Whisp

Whisp is secure messenger that is purely web-based.

It is a work in progress.

For now, you can render some of UI with dummy data.

Installation and run

1. Clone this repository locally.

mkdir whisp
cd whisp
git clone https://github.com/alexeykomov/whisp.git

2. Update all git submodules.

git submodule init
git submodule update

3. Specifically update protobuf.

cd ./src/protobuf
git pull origin json-serialization
cd ./js
npm install
export PROTOC=protoc && gulp dist

4. Runtimes - Install Java, Python and Node.js. Node.js must be at least of version 6.

5. Globally install following node modules - Express, Less, Bunyan.

npm install express -g
npm install less -g
npm install grunt-cli -g
npm install bunyan -g

6. Locally to project, install all needed node modules.

cd whisp
npm install

7. Compile from sources.

npm run compile-ui
npm run compile-worker
npm run compile-less

8. Launch an application.

npm run start-debug

9. Go to http://localhost:3001/