⭐️ Open source Instant Messaging Server ⭐️
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## ✨ About OpenIM
Open-IM-Server is a robust instant messaging server engineered using pure Golang, leveraging JSON over WebSocket for communication. The server treats everything as a message, facilitating straightforward customization without modifying the server code. Its microservice architecture enables deployment using clusters, ensuring high performance and scalability.
Whether you're looking to integrate instant messaging or real-time networking into your applications, Open-IM-Server is your go-to solution! :rocket:
It's important to note that Open-IM-Server isn't a standalone product, and it doesn't include account registration and login services. However, we've made your life easier by open-sourcing the [chat repository](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/chat) that includes login and registration features. Deploying the chat business server alongside Open-IM-Server quickly sets up a comprehensive chat product. :busts_in_silhouette:
## :star2: Why OpenIM
**🔍 Function screenshot display**
| multiple message | Efficient meetings |
| :------------------------: | :--------------------------------: |
| ![](./docs/images/) | ![](./docs/images/) |
| One-to-one and group chats | Special features - Custom messages |
| ![](./docs/images/) | ![](./docs/images/) |
1. **Comprehensive Message Type Support :speech_balloon:**
✅ Supports almost all types of messages, including text, images, emojis, voice, video, geographical location, files, quotes, business cards, system notifications, custom messages and more
✅ Supports one-on-one and multi-person audio and video calls
✅ Provides terminal support for multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Flutter, uni-app, ReactNative, Electron, Web, H5
2. **Efficient Meetings Anytime, Anywhere :earth_americas:**
✅ Based on IM (Instant Messaging) with 100% reliable forced signaling capabilities, it paves the way for IM systems, deeply integrated with chat applications
✅ Supports hundreds of people in a single meeting, with subscription numbers reaching thousands, and server-side audio and video recording
3. **One-on-one and Group Chats for Various Social Scenarios :busts_in_silhouette:**
✅ OpenIM has four roles: application administrator, group owner, group administrator, and regular member
✅ Powerful group features such as muting, group announcements, group validation, unlimited group members, and loading group messages as needed
4. **Unique Features :star2:**
✅ Supports read-and-burn private chats, customizable duration
✅ Message editing function broadens social scenarios, making instant communication more diverse and interesting
5. **Open Source :open_hands:**
✅ The code of OpenIM is open source, self-controlled data, aimed at building a globally leading IM open source community, including client SDK and server
✅ Based on open source Server, many excellent open source projects have been developed, such as [OpenKF](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/OpenKF) (Open source AI customer service system)
6. **Easy to Expand :wrench:**
✅ The OpenIM server is implemented in Golang, introducing an innovative "everything is a message" communication model, simplifying the implementation of custom messages and extended features
7. **High Performance :racing_car:**
✅ OpenIM supports a hierarchical governance architecture in the cluster, tested by a large number of users, and abstracts the storage model of online messages, offline messages, and historical messages
8. **Full Platform Support :tv:**
✅ Supports native iOS, Android; cross-platform Flutter, uni-app, ReactNative; major web front-end frameworks such as React, Vue; applets; and PC platforms supported by Electron
9. **The ultimate deployment experience 🤖**
✅ Supports cluster deployment
✅ Supports multi-architecture mirroring, our Docker images are hosted not only on GitHub but also on Alibaba Cloud and Docker Hub supporting multiple architectures. Visit [our GitHub packages](https://github.com/orgs/OpenIMSDK/packages?repo_name=Open-IM-Server) and read our [version management document](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/version.md) for more information.
10. **A large ecosystem of open source communities 🤲**
✅ We have tens of thousands of users and many solutions to problems.
✅ We have a large open source community called [OpenIMSDK](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK) that runs the core modules, we have an open source community called [openim-sigs](https://github.com/openim-sigs) to explore more IM-based infrastructure products.
## :rocket: Quick Start
Deploying with Docker Compose
1. Clone the project
```bash
# choose what you need
BRANCH=release-v3.1
git clone -b $BRANCH https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server openim && export openim=$(pwd)/openim && cd $openim && make build
```
> **Note**
>
> Read our release policy: https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/version.md
2. Modify .env
```bash
USER=root #no need to modify
PASSWORD=openIM123 #A combination of 8 or more numbers and letters, this password applies to redis, mysql, mongo, as well as accessSecret in config/config.yaml
ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:10005 #minio's external service IP and port, or use the domain name storage.xx.xx, the app must be able to access this IP and port or domain,
API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:10002/object/ #the app must be able to access this IP and port or domain,
DATA_DIR=./ #designate large disk directory
```
3. Deploy and start
> **Note**
> This command can only be executed once. It will modify the component passwords in docker-compose based on the `PASSWORD` variable in `.env`, and modify the component passwords in `config/config.yaml`. If the password in `.env` changes, you need to first execute `docker-compose down`; `rm components -rf` and then execute this command.
```
make install
```
4. Check the service
```bash
make check
```
![https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/images/docker_build.png](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/images/docker_build.png)
Compile from Source
Ur need `Go 1.18` or higher version, and `make`.
Version Details: https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/version.md
```bash
# choose what you need
BRANCH=release-v3.1
git clone -b $BRANCH https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server openim && export openim=$(pwd)/openim && cd $openim && make build
```
Read about the [OpenIM Version Policy](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/version.md)
`make help` to help you see the instructions supported by OpenIM.
All services have been successfully built as shown in the figure
![Successful Compilation](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/images/build.png)
Component Configuration Instructions
The config/config.yaml file has detailed configuration instructions for the storage components.
- Zookeeper
- Used for RPC service discovery and registration, cluster support.
```bash
zookeeper:
schema: openim #Not recommended to modify
address: [ 127.0.0.1:2181 ] #address
username: #username
password: #password
```
- MySQL
- Used for storing users, relationships, and groups, supports master-slave database.
```bash
mysql:
address: [ 127.0.0.1:13306 ] #address
username: root #username
password: openIM123 #password
database: openIM_v2 #Not recommended to modify
maxOpenConn: 1000 #maximum connection
maxIdleConn: 100 #maximum idle connection
maxLifeTime: 60 #maximum time a connection can be reused (seconds)
logLevel: 4 #log level 1=slient 2=error 3=warn 4=info
slowThreshold: 500 #slow statement threshold (milliseconds)
```
- Mongo
- Used for storing offline messages, supports mongo sharded clusters.
```bash
mongo:
uri: #Use this value directly if not empty
address: [ 127.0.0.1:37017 ] #address
database: openIM #default mongo db
username: root #username
password: openIM123 #password
maxPoolSize: 100 #maximum connections
```
- Redis
- Used for storing message sequence numbers, latest messages, user tokens, and mysql cache, supports cluster deployment.
```bash
redis:
address: [ 127.0.0.1:16379 ] #address
username: #username
password: openIM123 #password
```
- Kafka
- Used for message queues, for message decoupling, supports cluster deployment.
```bash
kafka:
username: #username
password: #password
addr: [ 127.0.0.1:9092 ] #address
latestMsgToRedis:
topic: "latestMsgToRedis"
offlineMsgToMongo:
topic: "offlineMsgToMongoMysql"
msgToPush:
topic: "msqToPush"
msgToModify:
topic: "msgToModify"
consumerGroupID:
msgToRedis: redis
msgToMongo: mongo
msgToMySql: mysql
msgToPush: push
msgToModify: modify
```
Start and Stop Services
Start services
```
./scripts/start_all.sh;
```
Check services
```
./scripts/check_all.sh
```
Stop services
```
./scripts/stop_all.sh
```
Open IM Ports
| TCP Port | Description | Operation |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| TCP:10001 | ws protocol, message port such as message sending, pushing etc, used for client SDK | Port release or nginx reverse proxy, and firewall off |
| TCP:10002 | api port, such as user, friend, group, message interfaces. | Port release or nginx reverse proxy, and firewall off |
| TCP:10005 | Required when choosing minio storage (openIM uses minio storage by default) | Port release or nginx reverse proxy, and firewall off |
Open Chat Ports
+ chat warehouse: https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/chat
| TCP Port | Description | Operation |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| TCP:10008 | Business system, such as registration, login etc | Port release or nginx reverse proxy, and firewall off |
| TCP:10009 | Management backend, such as statistics, banning etc | Port release or nginx reverse proxy, and firewall off |
## :link: Relationship Between APP and OpenIM
OpenIM isn't just an open-source instant messaging component, it's an integral part of your application ecosystem. Check out this diagram to understand how AppServer, AppClient, Open-IM-Server, and Open-IM-SDK interact.
![App-OpenIM Relationship](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/images/open-im-server.png)
## :building_construction: Overall Architecture
Delve into the heart of Open-IM-Server's functionality with our architecture diagram.
![Overall Architecture](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/images/Architecture.jpg)
## :hammer_and_wrench: To start developing OpenIM
OpenIM Our goal is to build a top-level open source community. We have a set of standards, in the [Community repository](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/community).
If you'd like to contribute to this Open-IM-Server repository, please read our [contributor documentation](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
Before you start, please make sure your changes are in demand. The best for that is to create a [new discussion](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/discussions/new/choose) OR [Slack Communication](https://join.slack.com/t/openimsdk/shared_invite/zt-1tmoj26uf-_FDy3dowVHBiGvLk9e5Xkg), or if you find an issue, [report it](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/issues/new/choose) first.
- [Code Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/go_code.md)
- [Docker Images Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/images.md)
- [Directory Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/directory.md)
- [Commit Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/commit.md)
- [Versioning Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/version.md)
- [Interface Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/api.md)
- [Log Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/log.md)
- [Error Code Standards](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/blob/main/docs/conversions/error_code.md)
## :busts_in_silhouette: Community
+ 📚 [OpenIM Community](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/community)
+ 💕 [OpenIM Interest Group](https://github.com/Openim-sigs)
+ 🚀 [Join our Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/openimsdk/shared_invite/zt-1tmoj26uf-_FDy3dowVHBiGvLk9e5Xkg)
+ :eyes: [Join our wechat (微信群)](https://openim-1253691595.cos.ap-nanjing.myqcloud.com/WechatIMG20.jpeg)
## :calendar: Community Meetings
We want anyone to get involved in our community and contributing code, we offer gifts and rewards, and we welcome you to join us every Thursday night.
Our conference is in the [OpenIM Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/openimsdk/shared_invite/zt-1tmoj26uf-_FDy3dowVHBiGvLk9e5Xkg) 🎯, then you can search the Open-IM-Server pipeline to join
We take notes of each [biweekly meeting](https://github.com/orgs/OpenIMSDK/discussions/categories/meeting) in [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/discussions/categories/meeting), Our historical meeting notes, as well as replays of the meetings are available at [Google Docs :bookmark_tabs:](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nx8MDpuG74NASx081JcCpxPgDITNTpIIos0DS6Vr9GU/edit?usp=sharing).
## :eyes: Who are using OpenIM
Check out our [user case studies](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/community/blob/main/ADOPTERS.md) page for a list of the project users. Don't hesitate to leave a [📝comment](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/issues/379) and share your use case.
## :page_facing_up: License
OpenIM is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server/tree/main/LICENSE) for the full license text.
The OpenIM logo, including its variations and animated versions, displayed in this repository [OpenIM](https://github.com/OpenIMSDK/Open-IM-Server) under the [assets/logo](./assets/logo) and [assets/logo-gif](assets/logo-gif) directories, are protected by copyright laws.
## 🔮 Thanks to our contributors!