vcc: the next generation of chat platform

Introduction

Very cool chat (short form vcc) is a new way for chat which is fast, secure, open and powerful, you can’t live without it once you use it. There are 2 parts in vcc, including rpc (server and service) and gateways.

Usage (for a normal user)

You can easily use it using gateways. There are currently three official gateways designed for normal users:

• web-vcc supports nearly all features, but it requires modern browsers and has poor support for mobile devices, you can try it on Demo web-vcc
• vcc-godot supports fewer features,but it is much more friendly to mobile users.
• vos (vcc on ssh) is designed for new hackers. You can choose any of them to use.

Usage (for anyone who wants to deploy in his own server)

Install rpc

You need to do the following steps:

1. Install python>=3.10, you need to replace python with python3 in the following commands if the default python is python2.
2. Install minio and start it.(If you would like to have attachment support)
3. Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/vcc-chat/vcc_rpc.git —-depth 1
cd vcc_rpc
python -m venv env
. env/bin/activate
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
nohup python server/main.py &
nohup python services/chat.py &
nohup python services/login.py &
nohup python services/bot.py &  # optional, only if you want bot support, you should also set some envs
nohup python services/file.py &  # optional, only if you want attachment support
#nohup python services/record.py & Not functional so far

Install web-vcc & vcc_godot

git clone https://github.com/vcc-chat/web-vcc.git —-depth 1
cd backend
python -m venv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
nohup python main.py &
# TODO: nginx configuration

Install vos

# TODO

Install vcc-bot server

git clone https://github.com/vcc-chat/vcc-bot.git —-depth 1
cd vcc-bot/server
python -m venv env
. env/bin/activate.fish
pip install -r requirements.txt
nohup python main.py