# Chookchat

This is a simple message board

Features:

- Username/password access (passwords secured by bcrypt2)
- Markdown rendering
- User profile pages
- Friends (direct messages system) (WIP)

## Building

Install `bin2cpp` and `maddy`.

Then, do the following:

```sh
# serialises the client using bin2cpp
sh build.sh

cd server
meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir

# run with
./builddir/chookchat
```

## Credits

The server uses the following libraries:

- [cpp-httplib](https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib) for the web server 
- [Maddy](https://github.com/progsource/maddy) for the Markdown processor
- [Bcrypt.cpp](https://github.com/hilch/Bcrypt.cpp) for password hashing/salting
- [JSON for Modern C++](https://github.com/nlohmann/json) for JSON processing
- [bin2cpp](https://github.com/end2endzone/bin2cpp) for packing site files into the binary

The following people have contributed to the project:

- [SpookyDervish](https://chookspace.com/SpookyDervish) for client navbar and notification sound
- [reallynniroprobably](https://chookspace.com/reallynniroprobably) for error message