HOPR Chat is a proof of concept and demo application, showing of the capabilities of the HOPR protocol, allow you to start a HOPR Node and connect to the HOPR Network.

Installing

From releases

Go to Releases to install the application from a pre-compiled binary. For further instructions on how to do so, please read our quick start guide or for more experienced users try the advanced setup.

From docker images

• Stable - Docker Hub
• Alpha - Google Registry

Pick an image from any Docker Registry described above, and pull it (e.g. docker pull hopr/chat). To run it with the proper bindings, you can do the following:

docker run -v $(pwd)/db:/app/db \
-e HOST_IPV4=0.0.0.0:9091 \
-e BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS=/ip4/34.65.219.148/tcp/9091/p2p/16Uiu2HAkwSEiK819yvnG84pNFsqXkpFX4uiCaNSwADnmYeAfctRn,/ip4/34.65.148.229/tcp/9091/p2p/16Uiu2HAmRsp3VBLcyPfTBkJYEwS47bewxWqqm4sEpJEtPBLeV93n \
-e ETHEREUM_PROVIDER=wss://kovan.infura.io/ws/v3/f7240372c1b442a6885ce9bb825ebc36 \
-p 9091:9091 -it hopr/chat -p switzerland

For further informations on how to run HOPR Chat using Docker, please see our advanced setup.

From source code

To install HOPR Chat from source code, clone this repository:

git clone [email protected]:hoprnet/hopr-chat.git

Development

To contribute to the project, please follow the next steps to learn how to install the source code's dependencies, compile the project from scratch, and run it locally from your computer.

Install depedencies

yarn

Compiling source code

yarn build

Run application

HOST_IPV4=0.0.0.0:9091
ETHEREUM_PROVIDER=wss://kovan.infura.io/ws/v3/f7240372c1b442a6885ce9bb825ebc36
yarn start

When the service is running you can type help to see a full list of commands.