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Drop the brand-orange band entirely. The section now sits on the
canonical \`bg-background\` so it reads as a continuation of the
home page, not a separate marketing slab. No more navy/slate
surfaces.
New visual structure:
• Decorative spine — a soft vertical brand-orange gradient line
runs down the left margin (md+), evoking an editorial /
manifesto feel without changing the page surface.
• Eyebrow framed with brand-orange leader lines + tracking-wider
"WHY ÁGORA" wordmark — reads like a chapter marker.
• Giant Bebas Neue italic display headline at scale (text-5xl
→ text-7xl), uppercase, stroke-painted. The headline now
earns the visual weight that a colored background was doing
before. Matches the page hero typography exactly.
• Three numbered chapters (01 / 02 / 03), each anchored by a
massive italic Bebas Neue numeral in brand orange paired
with a thin orange seam line. No card chrome — chapters sit
directly on the page background so the section reads as
continuous editorial copy, not three boxed tiles. Each
chapter has heading + mission paragraph + brand-orange
✓ checklist for blocks 1-2.
• Block 3 uses a split-card public/private cell pair with
brand-orange (public) and muted (private) tints, framed in
a single rounded border — a tiny diagram of the "your
choice" framing rather than a generic bullet list.
• Soft brand-orange halo behind the headline (CSS only, blur-3xl)
for depth.
• Closing CTA is now a small text-link with an underlined wordmark
and a chevron that nudges on hover — quieter than a button,
consistent with the editorial idiom.
Drops the indigo accent that the v1 design used and standardizes
on brand-orange + neutral foreground/muted-foreground tokens,
which means dark mode inherits the canonical dark surface and
typography automatically.
No new translation keys; reuses the existing
\`campaigns.home.whyDifferent.*\` strings as-is. Dropped unused
\`Bitcoin\` and \`ShieldOff\` icon imports.
Agora
Power to the people.
Agora is a Nostr client focused on community ownership, expressive identity, and censorship resistance. This repository (agora-3) is the Agora-branded app built from the Ditto codebase.
What This Repo Is
- Agora product identity (name, theme, assets, native IDs)
- Ditto-derived implementation with broad Nostr feature coverage
- Configurable deployment defaults via
agora.json
Features
- Community-first social client: notes, articles, comments, reposts, reactions, and rich event rendering
- Theming system: built-in presets + custom color/font/background themes that can be shared as events
- Lightning support: zaps with Nostr Wallet Connect and WebLN
- Private messaging: NIP-04 and NIP-17 direct messages
- Mobile app shell: Capacitor-powered Android/iOS wrappers
- Self-hostable: static web build + configurable relay and upload infrastructure
Getting Started
Prerequisites
- Node.js 22+
- npm 10.9.4+
Development
git clone https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/agora-3.git
cd agora-3
npm install
npm run dev
Development server: http://localhost:8080
Docker Getting Started
Use Docker Compose when you want the nginx reverse-proxy stack (necessary if you want decryptable media in messages - kind 15s of NIP 17):
git clone https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/agora-3.git
cd agora-3
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up --build
Proxy URL: http://localhost:8083
This starts:
viteservice on the internal Docker network (vite:8080)webservice (nginx) on host port8082, proxying to Vite with websocket support
Stop stack:
docker compose down
Production-style container build:
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up --build
Build
npm run build
Build output: dist/
Validate
npm test
This runs type-checking, linting, unit tests, and production build checks.
Configuration
Build-time config is read from agora.json (gitignored by default so each deployment can provide its own values).
{
"theme": "dark",
"relayMetadata": {
"relays": [
{ "url": "wss://relay.ditto.pub", "read": true, "write": true },
{ "url": "wss://relay.primal.net", "read": true, "write": true },
{ "url": "wss://relay.damus.io", "read": true, "write": true }
]
},
"blossomServers": [
"https://blossom.ditto.pub",
"https://blossom.primal.net/"
]
}
Configuration priority (highest first):
- User settings (local storage)
- Build config (
agora.json) - Hardcoded app defaults
Use a custom config path:
CONFIG_FILE=./my-config.json npm run build
Deployment
Agora builds to static files and can be deployed to any static host.
- GitLab/GitHub Pages
- Netlify/Vercel
- VPS or any web server with SPA routing fallback
For Android:
npm run build
npx cap sync
npx cap open android
Tech Stack
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Framework | React 18 |
| Build | Vite |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Styling | TailwindCSS 3 + shadcn/ui |
| Routing | React Router |
| Data | TanStack Query |
| Nostr | Nostrify + nostr-tools |
| Mobile | Capacitor |
| Testing | Vitest + React Testing Library |
Contributing
Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a merge request.