CoffeeScript
Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts

YakYak

Desktop client for Google Hangouts

(This app is in no way associated with or endorsed by Google)

Install it

We provide prebuilt binaries for Mac OS X, Linux 32 / 64 and Windows 32 / 64.

This is the latest release. We love bug reports!

What does it do:

• Send/receive chat messages
• Create/change conversations (rename, add people)
• Leave/delete conversation
• Notifications
• Toggle notifications on/off
• Drag-drop, copy-paste or attach-button for image upload.
• Hangupsbot sync room aware (no bot name, proper user pics)
• Show inline images
• Send presence/focus/typing/activeclient to behave like a proper client
• History scrollback
• Video/audio integration (open in chrome)
• Focus/typing indications (mainly a design issue. keep it clean)
• Offer alternative color schemes

Credits

Main authors

• Davide Bertola
• Martin Algesten

Contributors

• David Banham
• Max Kueng
• Arnaud Riu
• Austin Guevara

Developing

This is an open source project. Please help us!

It is written in coffeescript (nodejs) based on hangupsjs using trifl on top of electron (atom shell).

Setup

$ npm install
$ npm run gulp

Continuous build

$ npm run gulp watch

Run it

$ npm run electron app

Build Binaries for Deployment

$ npm run deploy

Structure

• src/: is where sources live
• src/ui/: holds renderer code (client side)
• YakYak.app/: is where the app is built
• YakYak.app/Contents/Resources/app/: specifically all is compiled to here