Tooty, is an alternative multi-accounts Web client for Mastodon.

Features:

Core Functionality

• Mastodon Client: Tooty serves as a dedicated web client for the Mastodon social network.

• Multi-Account Support: A key feature is its ability to manage multiple accounts simultaneously.

• Written in Elm: The application is an experimental client written predominantly in the Elm programming language (92.3%). It also uses CSS (6.1%) and HTML (1.6%).

Technical Usage and Deployment

• Fully Static Web Application: Tooty is a fully static web application designed to run in recent browsers.

• No Custom Server Required: Users do not need any custom server setup to utilize it. It only needs to be served (e.g., over HTTP).

• Publicly Hosted Option: A public version of the client is hosted on Github Pages.

• Self-Hosting: Users can self-host the application by obtaining a build and serving it over HTTP.

• Licensing: The project is available under the MIT Licence.

Development and Optimization Features (for self-hosters/developers)

The repository provides commands for development and production deployment:

• Building: The application can be built using $ npm run build.

• Optimization: The optimization command ($ npm run optimize) compresses and optimizes the generated JavaScript bundle, typically reducing its size by about 75%. This step is intended for deploying Tooty to production.

• Deployment: A command exists to deploy the app specifically to GitHub Pages ($ npm run deploy).

• Testing: Developers can launch the test suite using $ npm test.

• Development Servers: Commands are available to start the development server ($ npm run live), or run it in live debug mode (e.g., $ npm run debug:all to watch for CSS changes).