sphinx-tribes

Decentralized message broker for public groups in Sphinx. Anyone can run a sphinx-tribes server, to route group messages.

sphinx-tribes clients can be sphinx-relay nodes, apps, websites, or IoT devices.

How

sphinx-tribes is an MQTT broker that any node can subscribe to. Message topics always have two parts: {receiverPubKey}/{groupUUID}. Only the owner of the group is allowed to publish to it: all messages from group members must be submitted to the owner as an Lightning keysend payment. The group uuid is a timestamp signed by the owner.

Authentication

Authentication is handled by sphinx-auth

build

docker build --no-cache -t sphinx-tribes .

run against sphinx-stack

To run tribes frontend locally, use these ports:

• tribes: yarn start:tribes:docker (localhost:23000)
• people: yarn start:people:docker (localhost:23007)

Run frontend locally against people.sphinx.chat

If you would like to run just the frontend do the following

line 10 in frontend/app/src/config/ModeDispatcher.tsx change 'localhost:3000': Mode.TRIBES -> 'localhost:3000': Mode.COMMUNITY

line 5 in frontend/app/src/config/host.ts return "people.sphinx.chat"

Run Golang backemd

• Create a .env file and populate the env file with thgitese variables

    TEST_MODE=true
    PORT=  // Server PORT
    DATABASE_URL= // Database URL
    TEST_ASSET_URL= // Test asset URL

• Build the application by running go build .
• Run the application with ./sphinx-tribes

Run Golang backend with local database

• Create a Postgres database
• Copy the table creation queries from tribes.sql file, and create the tables in the database created
• Create a .env file and populate the .env files with these variables

    RDS_HOSTNAME =
    RDS_PORT =
    RDS_DB_NAME =
    RDS_USERNAME =
    RDS_PASSWORD =

• Build and run the Golang server