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25 lines
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# Hydrogen
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A minimal [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) chat client, focused on performance, offline functionality, and broad browser support.
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## Goals
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Hydrogen's goals are:
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- Work well on desktop as well as mobile browsers
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- UI components can be easily used in isolation
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- It is a standalone webapp, but can also be easily embedded into an existing website/webapp to add chat capabilities.
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- Loading (unused) parts of the application after initial page load should be supported
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## Status
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Hydrogen 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.
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## Why
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For every interaction or network response (syncing, filling a gap), Hydrogen 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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Try it locally by running `npm install dev` (only the first time) and `npm start` in the terminal, and point your browser to `http://localhost:3000`.
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