node-ircd

A flexible, modular IRC daemon, trying to be very node-like in its APIs.

Motivation

I run a small community chat server, and we want a hackable, fun IRCD, to do crazy new things with in the guise of IRC. So, this.

Features

• Single-server for now, I and C, but not so much R.
• Events for everything, making it easy to plug new things in
• Extensible, able to add new commands
• A demo server that shows who's online and what channels exist.
• A parser for traditional ircd.conf files

Wanted Features

• Hot reloading of parts of the code
• Multiple server support
• A working demo web chat.
• Mode handling, both standard and new ideas.
• SendQ tracking, and pausing the input with the normal node stream.pause()
• Channel operator functions such as KICK, modes +b, +o, +k, +i and INVITE
• A LIST implementation

Overview

Socket Layer

• Server, The local, listening service

  • register()
  • join()
  • sendTo(destination, message), look up an object to handle destination

• Connection, A client or server connection

• Peer, NIY, a single (remote) server, and metadata

  • send()

Messaging Layer

• Channel, A list of users + metadata

  • send(), send to each (local)user on the channel and to each (remote)user's server

• User, A single user, and metadata

  • send(), send to user's connection

To Do

• Split the message-passing functions into User, and leave Connection as parsing
• make server replies to messages use the sender object for returns
• Implement all the missing commands and replies
• Normalize nicknames and channel names for comparison.
• Make the internal API emit events that you'd want as a bot or client author: "For this user, on a message from this channel"

References

• Numerics: http://www.alien.net.au/irc/irc2numerics.html
• RFC 1459: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1459.txt
• RFC 2810: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2810.txt
• RFC 2811: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2811.txt
• RFC 2812: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2812.txt
• RFC 2813: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2813.txt
• TS6: http://svn.ratbox.org/svnroot/ircd-ratbox/trunk/doc/technical/ts6.txt