Akọ̀wé (Yoruba word for a clerk) is a serverless version of Kotype, a web-based collaborative real-time editing server for OpenDocuments (an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications) using XMPP (a communication protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML).
Akọ̀wé uses static web pages hosted here on Github or any basic web server and does not require any server-side code to be installed and configured to work. No PHP, no Java, no NodeJS, just serveless with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript!!.
Akọ̀we requires a standard public XMPP server extended with Colibri like Jitsi-Meet or Openfire Meetings together with standard XMPP Multi-User Chat (MUC) to provide audio conferencing and service the collaborative editing of text documents.
Open two browser window/tabs instances and point them at https://inspired-futures.github.io/akowe/?audio=true
Nothing to install!. It is is serverless. Just clone this GitHub repository and enabled GitPages for the docs folder.
First edit index.js and change the default settings in kotypeGlobals. Next, open two browser window/tabs instances and point them at the github.io URL of your clone.
To make full use of Akọ̀wé, you should embed it in your own application with an <iframe> and provide the required settings with parameters in the URL.
For example, this is an example URL that uses my gravatar public profile as shown above
The full list of parameters that can be used is shown below:
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| audio | false | Audio Conferencing enabled |
| avatar | unknown | image uri for user avatar (data:xxx) |
| username | unknown | An identifier for the user |
| name | Unknown | The fullname or nickname of user |
| docname | welcome.odt | The genesis document for the collaboration |
| docurl | ./welcome.odt | The url of the document to be edited |
| domain | meet.jit.si | XMPP domain |
| bosh | wss://meet.jit.si/xmpp-websocket | XMPP server connection url |
| pwd | undefined | XMPP user password for authentication |
| trace | false | Show ops transformation data in msg body. Set true for Openfire Meetings |