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Dispatch

Web-based IRC client in Go.

From khlieng·Updated May 1, 2026·View on GitHub·

- Searchable history - Persistent connections - Multiple servers and users - Automatic HTTPS through Let's Encrypt - Single binary with no dependencies - DCC downloads - SASL - Client certificates The project is written primarily in Go, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2015. Key topics include: chat, dispatch, go, golang, irc.

Latest release: v0.70.7

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Dispatch

Features

  • Searchable history
  • Persistent connections
  • Multiple servers and users
  • Automatic HTTPS through Let's Encrypt
  • Single binary with no dependencies
  • DCC downloads
  • SASL
  • Client certificates

Usage

There is a few different ways of getting it:

1. Binary

2. Go

This requires a Go environment, version 1.11 or greater.

Fetch, compile and run dispatch:

bash
go get github.com/khlieng/dispatch dispatch

To get some help run:

bash
dispatch help

3. Docker

bash
docker run \ -p <http port>:80 \ -p <https port>:443 \ -v <path>:/data \ --restart unless-stopped \ -d khlieng/dispatch

Build

Server

bash
go install

Client

This requires Node.js and yarn.

Fetch the dependencies:

bash
GO111MODULE=off go get github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/... yarn global add gulp-cli cd client yarn

Run the build:

bash
gulp build

The server needs to be rebuilt to embed new client builds.

For development with hot reloading start the frontend:

bash
gulp

And then the backend in a separate terminal:

bash
dispatch --dev

IRC Channel

#dispatch @ irc.libera.chat

Libraries

The libraries this project is built with.

Server

Client

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Contributors

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This article is auto-generated from khlieng/dispatch via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/21/2026