How to Install JSXC on Fedora CoreOS Latest

JSXC is a platform-independent web-based communication tool that allows users to send messages, make voice and video calls to one another. In this tutorial we'll go over how to install JSXC on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

Prerequisites

1. Access to the internet.
2. A terminal emulator application.

Step 1: Install necessary packages

Before we begin installing JSXC on Fedora CoreOS Latest, we need to install some necessary packages. Run the following command in your terminal emulator to update the package repositories:

sudo dnf update

Now we need to install the required packages that are used to build JSXC. Run the following command:

sudo dnf install git gcc nodejs npm

Step 2: Clone the JSXC source code

Now it's time to clone the JSXC source codes. Open your terminal emulator and run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/jsxc/jsxc.git

This will clone the latest version of JSXC's source code from its Github repository.

Step 3: Install packages for JSXC

JSXC has several dependencies that need to be installed to get it to work correctly. Move into the cloned directory and run:

cd jsxc/
npm ci

This will install all the required packages that JSXC uses.

Step 4: Configure JSXC

Now we have to configure JSXC. For this, we need to copy the default configuration file to a new file:

cp src/config.js.dist src/config.js

Edit the src/config.js file with your favorite text editor and configure the server URL, username, password and other settings. An example configuration is below:

JSXC.init({
    xmpp: {
        url: 'wss://example.com:5291/xmpp-websocket',
        username: 'jsxc',
        password: 'password',
        domain: 'example.com',
        resource: 'JSXC'
    },
    loginForm: {
        formNode: jQuery('#loginForm')
    },
    root: window.location.pathname.replace(/\/index.html$/, ''),
    displayRosterMinimized: true,
    otr: {
        enable: true
    },
    chat: {
        open: ['peter@example.com'],
        incoming_message: function (data) {
            alert('Incoming message from ' + data.origin.resource + ': ' + data.message);
        }
    }
});

In this example, wss://example.com:5291/xmpp-websocket is the server URL, jsxc and password are the username and password respectively.

Step 5: Build JSXC

JSXC is written in TypeScript, so we need to convert it into Javascript, which can be run in the web browser. Move to the root of the cloned directory and run the following command to build JSXC:

tsc

This will build the JSXC and create a new directory called dist.

Step 6: Deploy JSXC

Now we have to deploy the built JSXC to a web server. We can use any web server to deploy the JSXC files (e.g., Nginx, Apache, Caddy, etc.) In this example, we will use Python's built-in http.server module to deploy JSXC:

cd dist/
python3 -m http.server

This will start a web server on port 8000. Now open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000/.

You should see the JSXC login page. Login with the configured credentials.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed JSXC on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

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