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# Brawl
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A minimal [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) chat client, focused on performance, offline functionality and working on my Lumia 950 Windows Phone.
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## Status
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Brawl can currently log you in, or pick an existing session, sync already joined rooms, fill gaps in the timeline, and send text messages. Everything is stored locally.
![Showing multiple sessions, and sending messages](https://bwindels.github.io/brawl-chat/images/brawl-sending.gif)
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## Why
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I started writing Brawl both to have a functional matrix client on my aging phone, and to play around with some ideas I had how to use indexeddb optimally in a matrix client.
For every interaction or network response (syncing, filling a gap), Brawl starts a transaction in indexedb, and only commits it once everything went well. This helps to keep your storage always in a consistent state. As little data is kept in memory as well, and while scrolling in the above GIF, everything is loaded straight from the storage.
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If you find this interesting, feel free to reach me at `@bwindels:matrix.org`.
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# How to use
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You can [try Brawl here](https://bwindels.github.io/brawl/), or try it locally by running `yarn install` (only the first time) and `yarn start` in the terminal, and point your browser to `http://localhost:3000`.