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​Raven is an open-source messaging platform that brings your team's conversations and information into one centralized place, enhancing collaboration and productivity. Whether you're at your desk or on the move, Raven keeps you connected on any device.​

It's built using Frappe Framework and offers deep integrations with other Frappe apps like ERPNext and FrappeHR.

Key Features

1. Organize conversations in channels: Organize your conversations by topics, projects, or any category that suits your workflow. Send direct messages to other users or create channels for group discussions to keep everyone informed and engaged.​

2. Craft your messages with rich text: Easily send messages with formatting, highlights, links, emojis, code blocks, mentions and more

3. Share images, documents, GIFs and more: Need to share a file? Simply drag and drop it onto the screen. You can also find and share memes using our GIF search

4. Reactions, Replies, and Threads: Respond to messages with a reaction (custom emojis supported), inline replies or create threads for longer discussions.

5. Integrate Seamlessly: Raven works effortlessly with other Frappe apps, allowing you to share documents from ERPNext with customizable previews, trigger notifications based on document events, perform workflow actions and, print documents directly within chats.​

6. Agents, AI and more: With Raven AI, automate tasks, extract data from files and images, and execute complex, multistep processes with just a message to an agent. Build your own agents without writing a single line of code to streamline your workflows.​

7. Supports Dark Mode and Mobile: Raven allows users to customize the app's appearance as well as offers a mobile app.

8. Authentication and Security: Supports all popular OAuth providers, custom OAuth providers, Login with email link, 2FA on Email/SMS/Auth App and LDAP.

Tech Stack

Common across web and mobile

• Frappe Framework - an open-source full stack development framework. It uses Python, MariaDB/Postgres, socket.io and Redis

• React

• Frappe React SDK - React Hooks library that we created/maintain to handle auth, data fetching and API calls to the Frappe Framework backend

• Tailwind CSS -

• Firebase - Push notifications, Crash Analytics and Performance Monitoring

Web

• RadixUI - Accessible UI components for the web

• TipTap - Rich Text Editor

• React Icons - icon library

• emoji-mart - Emoji Picker library

Mobile

• React Native

• Expo - for all plugins/utilities and deployment

• NativeWind - using TailwindCSS but on React Native

• React Native Reanimated - Animations for React Native

• React Native Gesture Handler - to handle touch and gestures on React Native

• Zeego - Dropdown menus for React Native