Architecture — HueByte/EchoHub

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Topic Guides

Deep-dives into cross-cutting concerns synthesized from the per-symbol corpus.

API client authentication — How the client authenticates with the server, including login, token refresh, and token usage across API calls.
Real-time connection and messaging — How the client establishes and maintains a real-time connection to the server and handles channel messaging.
UI theming and theme management — Theme data models and the system that loads, stores, and applies themes to the UI.
Slash command handling — Parsing and executing user commands entered as slash commands in chat.
Attachments transfer — Attachment handling for staged files and outgoing attachments in chat messages.
Clipboard utilities — Clipboard helpers for files and images used in the UI.
Update management — Checking for updates and backing up state related to updates.
Encryption and room keys — Client-side encryption and per-room key protection for secure messaging.

Architecture Diagram

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System Overview

This repository implements a chat and file-sharing server with a desktop client: server-side controllers expose an HTTP API (e.g. AuthController, UsersController, FilesController) while a real-time hub (ChatHub) handles live messaging and presence. Background workers and maintenance tasks run as hosted services (for example FileCleanupService and DataMigrationService), and persistent state is stored in the Entity Framework DbContext (EchoHubDbContext). The desktop client communicates with the server via an API client (ApiClient) and includes local services like audio playback and message encryption.

Key Components

Controllers — HTTP API surface for authentication, user and channel management, file operations and moderation. Implemented by AuthController, ChannelsController, FilesController, InvitesController, ModerationController, ServerController, UsersController.

Services — Core application logic and long-running background tasks, including channel/chat handling, file storage/cleanup, migrations, and utility services used by client and server. Implemented by ChannelService, ChatService, FileCleanupService, FileStorageService, DataMigrationService, AsciiBannerService, AudioPlaybackService, ClientEncryptionService.

Workers/Hubs — Real-time messaging and presence channel for live client-server communication. Implemented by ChatHub.

Repositories / Data Access — Persistence layer backed by Entity Framework Core; where application state is stored. Implemented by EchoHubDbContext.

External integrations — Client and protocol integrations used to communicate with the server or external systems (IRC). Implemented by ApiClient, IrcServiceExtensions, IrcCommandHandler, IrcOptions.

Component Map

Subsystems below are structural clusters detected from the dependency graph — groups of symbols more densely wired to each other than to the rest of the codebase.

src/EchoHub.Client/Services · AppOrchestrator — 22 documented files
src/EchoHub.Client/UI · MainWindow — 18 documented files
src/EchoHub.Server · User — 13 documented files
src/EchoHub.Server · Program — 12 documented files
src/EchoHub.Core/DTOs · ApiClient — 10 documented files
src/EchoHub.Core/DTOs · ChannelService — 7 documented files
src/EchoHub.Core/Contracts · ChannelDto — 6 documented files
src/EchoHub.Core/Models — 5 documented files
src/EchoHub.Client/Themes — 4 documented files
src/EchoHub.Client/UI · Channel — 4 documented files
src/EchoHub.Server · ServerLogsStreamService — 4 documented files
src/EchoHub.Client/Services · UpdateBackupService — 3 documented files
…and 10 more subsystem folders

Components by Role

Configuration

IrcOptions — src/EchoHub.Server.Irc/IrcOptions.cs
ServerLogsOptions — src/EchoHub.Server/Config/ServerLogsOptions.cs
SpamOptions — src/EchoHub.Server/Config/SpamOptions.cs
StatsOptions — src/EchoHub.Server/Config/StatsOptions.cs

Controllers

AuthController — src/EchoHub.Server/Controllers/AuthController.cs
ChannelsController — src/EchoHub.Server/Controllers/ChannelsController.cs
FilesController — src/EchoHub.Server/Controllers/FilesController.cs
InvitesController — src/EchoHub.Server/Controllers/InvitesController.cs
ModerationController — src/EchoHub.Server/Controllers/ModerationController.cs
ServerController — src/EchoHub.Server/Controllers/ServerController.cs
UsersController — src/EchoHub.Server/Controllers/UsersController.cs

Data Access

EchoHubDbContext — src/EchoHub.Server/Data/EchoHubDbContext.cs

Extensions

IrcServiceExtensions — src/EchoHub.Server.Irc/IrcServiceExtensions.cs

External Clients

ApiClient — src/EchoHub.Client/Services/ApiClient.cs
IEchoHubClient — src/EchoHub.Core/Contracts/IEchoHubClient.cs

Handlers

CommandHandler — src/EchoHub.Client/Commands/CommandHandler.cs
IrcCommandHandler — src/EchoHub.Server.Irc/IrcCommandHandler.cs

Realtime Hubs

ChatHub — src/EchoHub.Server/Hubs/ChatHub.cs

Services

AsciiBannerService — src/EchoHub.Core/Services/AsciiBannerService.cs
AudioPlaybackService — src/EchoHub.Client/Services/AudioPlaybackService.cs
ChannelService — src/EchoHub.Server/Services/ChannelService.cs
ChatService — src/EchoHub.Server/Services/ChatService.cs
ClientEncryptionService — src/EchoHub.Client/Services/ClientEncryptionService.cs
DataMigrationService — src/EchoHub.Server/Setup/DataMigrationService.cs
FileCleanupService — src/EchoHub.Server/Services/FileCleanupService.cs
FileStorageService — src/EchoHub.Server/Services/FileStorageService.cs
IChannelService — src/EchoHub.Core/Contracts/IChannelService.cs
IChatService — src/EchoHub.Core/Contracts/IChatService.cs
IMessageEncryptionService — src/EchoHub.Core/Contracts/IMessageEncryptionService.cs
IUserService — src/EchoHub.Core/Contracts/IUserService.cs

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