Source code

This page describes the different source code folders and their content.

build files

Files in the root dir that begins with build- are files used to build the plugin. See the package.json file for more information.

assets

assets/images

The assets/images folder contains all icons files used by the plugin.

There is also the assets/images/avatars folders, which contains avatars used for anonymous chat users. These files are used to generate multiple avatars (see the build-avatars.js script for more information).

  • assets/images/avatars/legacy contains legacy avatar set (livechat versions until 8.1.0 included)
  • assets/images/avatars/sepia contains new sepia avatar set, based on the work of David Revoy (see copyright informations)
  • assets/images/avatars/cat contains new cats avatar set, based on the work of David Revoy (see copyright informations)
  • assets/images/avatars/bird contains new birds avatar set, based on the work of David Revoy (see copyright informations)
  • assets/images/avatars/fenec contains new fenecs avatar set, based on the work of David Revoy (see copyright informations)
  • assets/images/avatars/abstract contains new abstract avatar set, based on the work of David Revoy (see copyright informations)

assets/styles

The assets/styles folder contains the livechat plugin SCSS source files.

build

The build folder is not part of the source code, but is used to put some files during the build process.

For example, build-conversejs.js use the folder build/conversejs to build a customized ConverseJS version.

client

The client folder contains the front-end source code.

Files like client/common-client-plugin.ts, admin-plugin-client-plugin.ts, … are the base files that are loaded by Peertube for different “scopes” (common, videowatch, …). Please refer to the Peertube plugin documentation for more information.

conversejs

The conversejs folder contains code relative to the use of ConverseJS.

conversejs/custom

The conversejs/custom folder contains some files that are used to customize ConverseJS. See the build-conversejs.sh script for more information.

dist

The dist folder is where goes all files created during the build process. It is not part of the source code.

documentation

The folder documentation is deprecated. We only keep files in this folder to avoid dead links (links to these files were shared on many websites or social media posts).

The source code for the new documentation is in support/documentation/content/en, and is used to generate the documentation web site.

languages

The folder languages contains the languages files. These files are translated using Weblate).

prosody-modules

The prosody-modules folder contains some modules used by Prosody.

Some of them are “officials” plugins, others are specific to this plugin.

server

The server folder contains the backend source code.

shared

The shared folder contains comme code that will be used both on frontend and backend.

support/documentation

The support/documentation contains the documentation source code.

vendor

The vendor folder is not part of the source code. It is used during the build process to download some external source code.