Glowing Bear is a web-based IRC client that provides a modern and customizable interface. It is easy to install and use, and it is compatible with most IRC servers.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Glowing Bear on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following:
To install Glowing Bear, you need to first install the necessary dependencies. Open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo dnf install git nodejs npm
This command installs Git, Node.js, and npm, which are required to download and run Glowing Bear.
To download Glowing Bear, clone the repository from GitHub by running the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear.git
This command downloads the latest version of Glowing Bear to your local machine. Navigate to the downloaded directory by running the following command:
cd glowing-bear
Next, use npm to install the necessary dependencies:
npm install
This command installs all of the required packages for Glowing Bear to run.
Now that you have installed Glowing Bear and its dependencies, you need to configure it. Copy the config.js.example file to config.js using the following command:
cp config.js.example config.js
Open the config.js file in your preferred text editor and modify the configuration according to your needs.
One important configuration item is the servers array. This array contains the IRC servers that Glowing Bear will connect to. You can define multiple servers by adding them to this array.
servers: [
{
label: 'My IRC Server',
host: 'irc.example.com',
port: 6667,
tls: false,
nickname: 'myusername',
password: 'mypassword',
channels: [
'#channel1',
'#channel2'
]
}
]
Here, you can see that we have defined one server with the label "My IRC Server" and the hostname irc.example.com. We have also specified the port, whether TLS is enabled, our username, password, and the channels that we want to join.
Note: You should always specify the IRC server password under the password key. This ensures that your password will not be visible in plain text.
To run Glowing Bear, execute the following command in your terminal:
npm start
This command starts the Glowing Bear server on your local machine. You can now access Glowing Bear by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Glowing Bear on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You also learned how to configure Glowing Bear to connect to your preferred IRC server. You are now ready to use Glowing Bear as your web-based IRC client.
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