A dependency free Node/Typescript implementation of an IRC server.

An implementation of an IRC server as defined by RFC 1459.

There's a running instance of the server on irc.corinv.dev on ports 6697 or 6667, connect using your favourite client. Note that SSL is not implemented yet so keep in mind:

• You may need to edit the connection options to indicate SSL is not on
• Your messages are very much not secure in transport!

This is a work in progress, so functionality is currently missing.

It is also worth noting, that since the inital RFC 1459 there have been several more RFCs (see 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813) and that all modern clients will favour this.

The current implementation has been tested against Hexchat and very briefly against irssi. If you're experiencing an issue using a certain client, feel free to open an issue.

• SSL
• Tests
• Logging
• User/Channel modes
• Finish implementing rest of commands

Clone this project and then simply install the development dependencies and then run the dev script for a reloadable local server:

> npm i
> npm run dev

There's an included Dockerfile to build an image of the server for easy deployment:

docker build -t ts-node-irc .

The default configuration should work fine out of the box, but you can edit the server configuration by passing in environment variables as such:

docker run -e "SERVER_NAME='New server'" ts-node-irc

The valid environment variables will be specified in src/Config/Config.ts.

As the server relies on raw TCP sockets, certain services that deploy containers may not be suitable, such as Heroku who do not support such connections.