years using the bash command line everyday on my system i have got interested in all things UNIX and their KISS philosophy "Keep It Simple Stupid" or "Keep it Stupidly Simple" i came across this neat BASH script with the title
A slack clone in 5 lines of bash
i love how simple and elegant this solution is, keeping one file
as the message channel, and reading out the message history is
easy.. choose your preferred tools,
i use tail -f .suc/channel to print out the updated history
and bash even shown ANSI colors and "images" converted with
tools like TIMG
another tool for the web is websocketd that adheres to the UNIX
style being a single binary that transmits any info piped to it through
STDIN, like websocketd --port 8888 tail -f .suc/channel and so is
readable on ws://localhost:8888
this way the updated message stream is available to be read on a
website with a little-to minimal javascript,
suc_channel.html is my little implementation of this, its very basic and i used a html template i worked on for another project because i liked the color layout,
screenshot of how it looks inside a pre element processed with ansi_up.js
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