# bridge

bridge is an extensible program that allows bridging various chat applications, providing an API that bridge clients can use. Currently, it only supports bridging Discord to the bridge API.

# Install

`node` and `npm` are required. `yarn` is recommended instead of `npm`. (If using yarn, replace occurrences of `npm` with `yarn`)

```
npm install
```

Before running it, you will probably want to edit the server's `config.js` to match the Discord guilds you'd like to bridge or change other settings.

Then, to run it:

```
DISCORD_TOKEN="your discord token" JWT_SECRET="jwt secret" node index.js
```

# Building the frontend

You may also want to build the frontend web application.

First, install the dependencies:
```
cd frontend
npm install
```

Then, open `src/config.js` in your editor and update the values to match where you're hosting the bridge's http server. You may use a reverse proxy such as NGINX. If you just want to run and use it locally, the defaults are fine.

Once you're done tweaking the configuration, you can build it:

```
npm run build
```

# Notice

This software may break the ToS of certain chat applications that do not allow bridging (either directly or indirectly). It is only for educational purposes and I am not responsible for any damage caused.