Custom Messenger

A fully featured Facebook Messenger desktop app, beautifully and minimally made with Electron.

I want to Use

Executables coming soon. If you're electron-friendly, please feel free to build and upload executables to this repo!

Bindings/Shortcuts

All keybindings start with Ctrl.

Ctrl Q will close the window, but not the app.

Right-clicking the tray icon closes the app.

Clicking the tray icon launches the app.

Ctrl Backspace goes back one page in history, aka to previous conversation.

Ctrl M minimizes the window.

Ctrl Shift F sets the app to fullscreen.

Ctrl Y centers the app.

Ctrl Tab toggles the conversation list.

Ctrl Shift I toggles Developer Tools.

I want to Develop

Requirements

• Electron (npm install electron --save-dev --save-exact --global, global so we can use the electron CLI)
• Electron Local Shortcut and some other plugins (npm i in this repo will do it)

Electron Install not working?

Try npm i and then install electron

I have Electron, Quick Start?

electron .

Quick Theming

Change the constant colors at the top of main.js for quick theming.

How do I package this?

You need electron-packager. To install look at https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager

electron-packager . <name>

We've been using Fapkin as the name to keep things organized.

Go to the folder named Fapkin and paste here the messenger.ico, then run FapkinChat.exe