Termicord

Discord in the terminal using raw sockets in C++.

Features

• Logging in or signing up a new user
• Creating a server
• Joining servers
• Adding friends
• Adding friends to servers
• Chatting in a server

How it works

There's 3 main components:

• Server:
  • Allows several clients to connect to it and send messages to each other
  • When it detects a message from one client it broadcasts it to several others
  • It boots up all the servers listed in the servers database so that users that are a part of that server can join it via a socket
• HTTP Server:
  • This creates a REST API so the server and client can interact with the database
  • It manages a json database where it reads and writes to json files
  • It routes requests to different functions to do something like write to the database or get some information
• Client:
  • This createa TUI for the user to interact with
  • It sends requests to the HTTP server for getting this like user and server information
  • It allows users to perform operations such as creating servers, adding friends, and joining servers

Here's an Excalidraw document that has flowcharts for each of the components:

Libraries/Technologies used

• Vcpkg for packagement
• CPR for curl requests in C++
• Spdlog for logging
• JSON for Modern C++ for parsing and stringifying JSON objects
• NCurses for the chat UI on the client side
• CMake for building the project

Questions/Feedback

Feel free to reach out to me via any of the contact methods below:

• Email
• Linkedin