emsg

Installation and Execution

An emergency, quick-setup, no requirements messenger to use when you cannot access the internet. First setup a folder on the server and upload the server binary, along with the static and templates folder(All available in the release bundle). To run it, you just need to upload the binary to the server and run:

PORT=4000 ./emsgkas

Running as a Service

you can use the msgkas.service as an example to setup a systemd service. To do so, follow the steps below

1. Copy emsgkas.service to /etc/systemd/system
2. Edit the WorkingDirectory, Executable, and PORT(optional)
3. Run the following commands to enable and start the service

sudo systemctl enable emsgkas
sudo systemctl start emsgkas

Running locally

Before running the application in a local environment, make sure to first build the AES256 encryption wasm module with the following commands:

# Build the wasm module in static/
make encryption-wasm

# If not present, also copy the wasm loader from go stdlib
cp "$(go env GOROOT)/lib/wasm/wasm_exec.js" static/

TODO

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• HTTPS
• WS ping pong
• AES256 Encryption
• Local storage message history and message ids
• file upload
• Emojis