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Flat

Project flat is the Web, Windows and macOS client of Agora Flat open source classroom.

From netless-io·Updated June 14, 2026·View on GitHub·

Agora Flat Project flat is the Web, Windows and macOS client of Agora Flat open source classroom. 中文 The project is written primarily in TypeScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2020. It has gained significant community traction with 6,405 stars and 877 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: agora, agora-flat, cloud-recording, e-class, e-learning.

Latest release: v2.3.6
January 20, 2025View Changelog →
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Features

  • Real-time interaction
    • Multifunctional interactive whiteboard
    • Real-time video/audio chat (RTC)
    • Real-time messaging (RTM)
  • Login via
    • GitHub
    • WeChat
  • Classroom management
    • Join, create and schedule classrooms
    • Support periodic rooms
  • Classroom recording and replaying
    • Whiteboard replaying
    • Cloud recording for video and audio
    • Messaging replaying
  • Cloud Storage for multi-media courseware
  • Screen sharing

Quickstart

You can build and run the Flat client without a server. This repository includes the following projects:

Installation

If you don't have pnpm installed:

bash
npm i -g pnpm

Clone or fork this project, at project root run:

bash
pnpm i

Build and run Flat Electron client

Run the following commands at the root of the repository to build and run Flat Electron client.

shell
pnpm start

You can use one of the following methods to package your executable:

  • Run pnpm ship at project root to package based on current system.
  • Alternatively, run pnpm ship:mac or pnpm ship:win at project root to package for a specified system.

Build and run Flat Web client

Run the following command at the root of the repository to build and run Flat web client.

shell
pnpm start:web

Alternatively, run the following command:

shell
cd ./web/flat-web/ && pnpm start

UI and business logic are separated in Flat. You can view and develop Flat components UI via Storybook. You can either visit the (Online address) or run pnpm storybook at the root of the repository to run Storybook locally.

References

Contributing

Writing code is great, but there are many other ways to make meaningful contributions to the project:

For more info about how to contribute, see CONTRIBUTING.md

Code Contributors

Thank you to all the people who already contributed to Flat!

<a href="https://github.com/netless-io/flat/graphs/contributors"><img src="https://opencollective.com/agora-flat/contributors.svg?width=890&button=false"/></a>

Disclaimer

You may use Flat for commercial purposes but please note that we do not accept customizational commercial requirements and deployment supports. Nor do we offer customer supports for commercial usage. Please head to Flexible Classroom for such requirements.

License

Copyright © Agora Corporation. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the MIT license.

When using the Flat or other GitHub logos, be sure to follow the GitHub logo guidelines.

Contributors

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