Glowing Bear
Glowing Bear is an open-source, self-hosted app in the IRC & XMPP category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in JavaScript. It has 981 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Aug 6, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- IRC & XMPP
- JavaScript
- GPL-3.0
- Maintained
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 981
- Forks
- 187
- Open issues
- 139
- Commits, last 12 months
- 19
- Last commit
- Aug 6, 2026
- Latest release
- 0.9.0Jul 6, 2020
- Created
- Feb 18, 2013
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
MaintainedMaintained: last commit Aug 6, 2026.
| Last commit | Aug 6, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 19 |
| Latest release | 0.9.0 (Jul 6, 2020) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 8 |
| Open issues | 139 |
| Open pull requests | 20 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Feb 18, 2013 |
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About Glowing Bear
A web frontend for WeeChat.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear.
Topics
- weechat
- irc
- websocket
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Is Glowing Bear free and open source?
Yes. Glowing Bear is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Glowing Bear with Docker?
Glowing Bear does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Nodejs), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Glowing Bear?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Glowing Bear include ejabberd, The Lounge and Weechat.
Is Glowing Bear actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Glowing Bear was on Aug 6, 2026 with 19 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 0.9.0, published Jul 6, 2020. It had 139 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Maintained" as of Oct 26, 2026.