Chookpen - A simple messaging service
What is Chookpen?
Chookpen is a lightweight, secure-ish chat server implementation focused on simplicity and real-time communication. It features user authentication, persistent message history, real-time updates via WebSockets, and supports both traditional HTTP endpoints and WebSocket connections for flexible integration. It uses very little resources on a system, often using a maximum of 20mb. Chookpen is BETA SOFTWARE, and MAY BE BUGGY! Don't expect too much.
A guide to this repository
Chookpen is split up into multiple parts, the server and different reference clients for different platforms. For extensive documentation of all parts of Chookpen, a repository wiki is being worked on which will be released soon. For now, if you want to learn more about Chookpen, visit each folder.
Acknowledgments
Chookpen relies on a lot of FOSS software, and wouldn't be possible without it! Here's some quick links to the original projects if you're interested:
Javalin
An easy to use web server for Kotlin and Java. Chookpen wouldn't be possible without it!
Gradle
The build tool for compiling Chookpen. It just works!
Kotlin
The language Chookpen is coded in. How else does it work?