Creating web client with Strophe.js

In this recipe, we will learn how to use web technologies to create a web-based XMPP client. I will demonstrate the use of the popular JavaScript library StropheJS to create a basic web client and connect to the XMPP server.

Strophe is a collection of libraries that can be used to communicate with the XMPP server. It contains libstrophe, which is a C-based implementation of XMPP client functionalities, and Strophe.js, which is a JavaScript implementation. Strophe provides core XMPP client functionality and can be extended with custom modules. The community has contributed various extensions to support additional XMPP functions.

With a limit on page count, I will focus on a simple demo of Strophe.js where we download ...

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