Riot vs RocketChat

Overview

Riot

Stacks116

Followers100

Votes68

GitHub Stars14.9K

Forks966

RocketChat

Stacks367

Followers542

Votes324

GitHub Stars43.8K

Forks12.4K

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Advice on Riot, RocketChat

Stefan

CEO / CTO at DROOM! #wirmachenweb #vienna

Feb 10, 2020

Decided

We chose RocketChat over other communications suites like Cliq or Slack mainly because we can self-host it on our own infrastructure. Since we have quite some projects going on which demand that we stay in touch with a lot of different stakeholders, pricing was an issue, too. With RocketChat, we have a huge set of features basically for free, RC offers apps for all major devices and systems and overall, we're very happy with it. The only downside is the limited amount of apps and integrations, but we can make due with what we have available.

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Detailed Comparison

Riot	RocketChat
Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.	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.
Absolutely the smallest possible amount of DOM updates and reflows.;One way data flow: updates and unmounts are propagated downwards from parent to children.;Expressions are pre-compiled and cached for high performance.;Lifecycle events for more control.	BYOS (bring your own server);Multiple Rooms;Direct Messages;Private Groups;Public Channels;Desktop Notifications;Mentions;Avatars;Markdown;Emojis;Transcripts / History;I18n - Internationalization
Statistics
GitHub Stars 14.9K	GitHub Stars 43.8K
GitHub Forks 966	GitHub Forks 12.4K
Stacks 116	Stacks 367
Followers 100	Followers 542
Votes 68	Votes 324
Pros & Cons
Pros 13 Its just easy... no training wheels needed 13 Light weight. Fast. Clear 11 Very simple, fast 9 Straightforward 6 Minimalistic Cons 1 Smaller community	Pros 72 Open source 38 Can be deployed on premise 32 Byos (bring your own server) 30 Faster than Slack 21 Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch Cons 1 Not as well-known as others like it 1 No full markdown support 1 Hard to upgrade 1 Poor user customization 1 Limited message history on SaaS
Integrations
No integrations available	Confluence GitHub Amazon S3 GitLab Prometheus Jira Amazon SNS GitHub Enterprise Hubot Docker Cloud

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