websocky

Websocky is a minimalistic websocket client GUI, written in react, wrapped in electron.

Features:

• automatic websocket connection and reconnection
• websocket URL saved persistently
• instant message sending
• stored message sending: use 0-9 keys to send messages stored in advance
• stored messages saved persistently
• connection related event logging
• message logging
• log line highlight
• save logs into a .txt file
• clear logs

Screenshot

Install & Development

React

#change directory to the react module
cd react

#install npm packages
npm install

#start react development server on port 3000
npm start

#make changes...

#update the build folder (necessary for packaging into electron)
npm run build

Electron

#change directory to the electron module
cd electron

#install npm packages
npm install

#start electron in dev mode, automatically copies build folder from react module
npm start

#make deb package
npm run make

This project is powered by:

• react
• electron
• bootstrap
• bootstrap icons
• react-use-websocket
• react-use-localstorage
• react-moment
• electron-forge

License

Websocky is licensed under MIT, see: license.