👨‍💻 Software Requirements - xChat

Created by Steve Smith
Last updated: Mar 28, 2022

xChat architecture requires the below software -

✔️ NodeJS v12.x - To install please download NodeJS here

✔️ MongoDB >= v3.6 - To install please download MongoDB

✔️ Redis server >=v2.8 - To install please download and setup Redis

✔️ FFMPEG

✔️ Graphicsmagick

✔️ Nginx >= v1.3

✔️ PM2 is a daemon process manager to help you manage and keep your application online 24/7

✔️ Yarn or npm to manage NodeJS package

✔️ Typescript 4.2.3 or higher (To install run npm install typscript@latest)

Ensure all the software listed alongside are running before setting up the source code.

Testing

From command line / terminal please run these commands to check

1. NodeJS

1 2 $ node -v v14.16.0

2. MongoDB

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 $ mongo --version MongoDB shell version v4.0.7 git version: 1b82c812a9c0bbf6dc79d5400de9ea99e6ffa025 allocator: system modules: none build environment: distarch: x86_64 target_arch: x86_64

3. Redis server

1 2 $ redis-server --version Redis server v=5.0.4 sha=00000000:0 malloc=libc bits=64 build=d4ba11298acbb366

4. FFMPEG

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 $ ffmpeg -version fmpeg version 2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 20160609 configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.16.04.1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --cc=cc --cxx=g++ --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=libschroedinger --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzmq --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libopencv libavutil 54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100 libavcodec 56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100 libavformat 56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101 libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100 libavfilter 5. 40.101 / 5. 40.101 libavresample 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0 libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101 libswresample 1. 2.101 / 1. 2.101 libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100

5. NGINX

1 2 $ nginx -v nginx version: nginx/1.10.3

6. Graphicsmagick

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 $ gm GraphicsMagick 1.3.31 2018-11-17 Q16 http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ Copyright (C) 2002-2018 GraphicsMagick Group. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software. See http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/www/Copyright.html for details. Usage: gm command [options ...] ....

7. Pm2

1 2 3 4 $ pm2 -v [PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/Users/xxx/.pm2 [PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized 4.4.0

8. Yarn

1 2 $ yarn -v 1.22.4