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Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger

A messenger implemented as a single HTML file

License: DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE .

The demo opens a hardcoded read-only .macaroni dataset, so the first screen does not burn unauthenticated GitHub API rate limit.

You can read demo .macaroni chats immediately. To read or write a real repository, open Settings and connect a GitHub repository. To write messages, you need a GitHub token with repository Contents read/write access, because GitHub is the backend we refused to build.

localhost is not part of the product. Double click is.

Detailed guide: How to get an access token .