What is RocketChat?
Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.
It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.
RocketChat is a tool in the Group Chat & Notifications category of a tech stack.
RocketChat is an open source tool with 41.7K GitHub stars and 11.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses RocketChat?
Companies
60 companies reportedly use RocketChat in their tech stacks, including Alibaba Travels, Biting Bit, and Rocket.Chat.
Developers
307 developers on StackShare have stated that they use RocketChat.
RocketChat Integrations
GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Amazon S3, and Confluence are some of the popular tools that integrate with RocketChat. Here's a list of all 19 tools that integrate with RocketChat.
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Decisions about RocketChat
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose RocketChat in their tech stack.
tztt2022
I've used Slack for team communication but I'm looking for a new collaboration tool that allows advanced permissions.
- Enable/disable DMs.
- Private room, where only allowed members can communicate but still can't send DMs if it's disabled.
I'm considering Mattermost or RocketChat. Does anyone have experience with them? Otherwise, any recommendations?
Pradeep Sreeram
CEO at CleanKoding · | 4 upvotes · 43.7K views
We need to develop a social media like chat in which users can message each other or create a channel. We are planning to use RocketChat or Mattermost under the hood to develop a custom UI. How do notifications work in that case? Has anyone done it? Or is there any better way to implement it.
RocketChat's Features
- BYOS (bring your own server)
- Multiple Rooms
- Direct Messages
- Private Groups
- Public Channels
- Desktop Notifications
- Mentions
- Avatars
- Markdown
- Emojis
- Transcripts / History
- I18n - Internationalization
RocketChat Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to RocketChat?
Mattermost
Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
Slack
Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
Google Hangouts
Message contacts, start free video or voice calls, and hop on a conversation with one person or a group.
Discord
Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.
Zulip
Zulip is powerful, open source team chat that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations.
Zulip allows busy managers and others in meetings all day to participate in their teams chats.
