Talkr - chat with visitors now

Talkr is a drop-in chatbox that allows you to connect with visitors to your site seamlessly. Talkr uses Socket.io, Redis, and Express.

Getting Started

Talkr needs the following applications to run:

• Redis
• Node.js

This is the build script used when setting up a talkr server:

apt-get update
apt-get install -y make g++

# Setting up Node.js
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.25/node-v0.10.25.tar.gz
tar -xvf node-v0.10.25.tar.gz
rm node-v0.10.25.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.25/
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

#Setting up Redis
# Setup Redis
apt-get install -y redis-server
redis-server

# Install dependencies
cd /{Directory in which talkr is located}
npm install

Once the server is setup, add a script tag loading talkr (talkr will load its own CSS files). Make sure talkr’s css files and html files are all in the same talkr folder.

<script src="talkr/talkr.js"></script>

If socket.io isn’t present, add a script tag loading it as well.

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/socket.io/0.9.16/socket.io.min.js"></script>

You know have a talkr chatbox on your website!

Project Goals

The future goals of this project are as follows:

• Only one script tag needed to add talkr to your site
• Backend to allow you to communicate with visitors and the ability to choose between single visitor chat or all visitors chat

License

MIT © Emil Stolarsky