Converse

Converse is a web based XMPP/Jabber chat client.

You can either use it as a webchat app, or you can integrate it into your own website.

It's 100% client-side JavaScript, HTML and CSS and the only backend required is a modern XMPP server.

Please support this project via Patreon or Liberapay

Demo

Converse is hosted and can be used at https://conversejs.org.

A demo showing anonymous login is available at https://conversejs.org/demo/anonymous.html and a demo which shows how you can embed a single chat room into a page is avialable at https://conversejs.org/demo/embedded.html.

Converse in overlay mode

Converse in fullpage mode

Documentation

The developer/integrator documentation can be found at https://conversejs.org/docs/html.

You'll probably want to begin with the quickstart guide, which shows you how to use the CDN (content delivery network) to quickly get a demo up and running.

Features

Available as overlayed chat boxes or as a fullscreen application. See inverse.chat for the fullscreen version.
A plugin architecture based on pluggable.js
Single-user and group chats
Contacts and groups
Multi-user chat rooms XEP 45
Chatroom bookmarks XEP 48
Direct invitations to chat rooms XEP 249
vCard support XEP 54
Service discovery XEP 30
In-band registration XEP 77
Roster item exchange XEP 144
Chat statuses (online, busy, away, offline)
Custom status messages
Typing and state notifications XEP 85
Desktop notifications
File sharing / HTTP File Upload XEP 363
Messages appear in all connnected chat clients / Message Carbons XEP 280
Third person "/me" messages XEP 245
XMPP Ping XEP 199
Server-side archiving of messages XEP 313
Hidden Messages (aka Spoilers) XEP 382
Client state indication XEP 352
Last Message Correction XEP 308
Off-the-record encryption
OMEMO encrypted messaging XEP 384
Supports anonymous logins, see the anonymous login demo.
Translated into 28 languages

Integration into other frameworks

Prosody: mod_conversejs
Openfire: inverse.jar
Ruby on Rails: conversejs-rails
Django: django-conversejs or django-xmpp
Patternslib: patterns.converse
Roundcube: roundcube-converse.js-xmpp-plugin
Wordpress: ConverseJS
Plone: collective.converse
Alfresco: alfresco-js-chat-share
Friendica: converse
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware: built-in optional feature

Tests

We use behavior-driven tests written with jasmine.js.

Open tests.html in your browser, and the tests will run automatically.

Licence

Converse.js is released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

Attribution

Emoji images are courtesy of Twemoji.

Support

Issues can be logged on the Github issue tracker.

Donations

A heartfelt thanks for everyone who has supported this project over the years. Many people have contributed testing, bugfixes, features and corrections.

Recently we have started accepting donations via Patreon and Liberapay.

The following people are making recurring donations:

Additionally this project is supported by

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