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Evgeny @ SimpleX ChatandEvgeny Poberezkin 7810fc4752 core, ui: terminal chat layout for LLM and service bot chats (#7811)
* plan: UI improvements to improve LLM usage via SimpleX

* core, ui: types for chat layout

* core, ui: settings for alternative terminal-like chat layout for managing LLMs or other service bots

* plan: message priority

* fixes

* query plan

* update plans

* remove silent messages plan

* rename migrations

* implement layout

* amend

* fix

* fix

* fix

* improve

* time on the right, sender name in blue

* no avatar in direct chats

* better previews

* update, fixes

* update

* time gap

* changes

* ui: terminal layout line heights, gaps and time placement

* ui: simplify terminal meta layout, correct its docs and tests

* ui: right-to-left emoji edge in terminal rows, time placement tests

* android, desktop: raise Kotlin compiler memory to 4 GB

* ui: terminal captions as follow-up text, classic event separators

* ui: terminal media edge and overlay time, plan decisions

* ui: simplify terminal row separation, correct doc line references

* ui: keep the media time inside terminal rows, restore caption conditions

* ui: terminal heading capitals at large font scales, idle live message time

* ui: rename the classic voice-with-text flag, correct the meta copy docs

* ui: smaller terminal layout diff, sender gap and meta names

* ui: terminal row as tall as the media time

* docs: remove the chat layout section from the bots readme

* docs: shorten the terminal layout section of the chat view

* core: address settings API as on master, /auto_accept reads the stored layout

* ui: smaller terminal headings

* ui: classic sender rows and avatar rule as on master

* ui: classic reply quote text colour as on master

* ios: keep the chat layout setting with other UI settings

* ui: go-to button at the end of terminal rows, no gutter in direct chats

* ui: forwarded arrow on the header line of terminal rows, above the time

* ui: forwarded arrow centred above the time line of terminal rows

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Co-authored-by: Evgeny Poberezkin <evgeny@poberezkin.com>
2026-10-25 18:03:11 +00:00
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SimpleX Chat JavaScript WebRTC client

THIS PACKAGE IS DEPRECATED

Use SimpleX Chat Node.js library instead of this package.

This is a TypeScript library that defines WebSocket API client for SimpleX Chat terminal CLI that should be run as a WebSockets server on any port:

simplex-chat -p 5225

Client API provides types and functions to:

  • create and change user profile (although, in most cases you can do it manually, via SimpleX Chat terminal app).
  • create and accept invitations or connect with the contacts.
  • create and manage long-term user address, accepting connection requests automatically.
  • create, join and manage group.
  • send and receive files.

Use cases

  • chat bots: you can implement any logic of connecting with and communicating with SimpleX Chat users. Using chat groups a chat bot can connect SimpleX Chat users with each other.
  • control of the equipment: e.g. servers or home automation. SimpleX Chat provides secure and authorised connections, so this is more secure than using rest APIs.

Please share your use cases and implementations.

Quick start

npm i @simplex-chat/webrtc-client@6.5.0-beta.3
npm run build

See the example of a simple chat bot in squaring-bot.js:

  • start simplex-chat as a server on port 5225: simplex-chat -p 5225 -d test_db
  • run chatbot: node examples/squaring-bot
  • connect to chatbot via SimpleX Chat client using the address of the chat bot

Documentation

Please refer to the available client API in client.ts.

This library uses @simplex-chat/types package with auto-generated bot API types

License

AGPL v3