As an end-user, you have multiple clients to pick from when it comes to accessing Nightwatch.
Here are two of the standard clients for you to choose from:

• Terminal Client (based on urwid)

  • Installation is as simple as pip install nightwatch-chat.
  • The client can be started by running nightwatch in your terminal.

• Full Desktop App (based on tauri)

  • Download the latest release for your system from here.
  • Alternatively, run it manually:
    • Follow the instructions from Tauri prerequisites (including installing Rust).
    • Install the Tauri CLI: cargo install tauri-cli.
    • Launch via cargo tauri dev inside the nightwatch/desktop/ folder.

Running a Nightwatch server can be a bit trickier then running the client, but follow along:

• You'll need either CPython 3.10 or above, or preferably, PyPy 3.10.
• Install the following dependencies: pypy3 -m pip install ujson socketify.
• Launch the server via pypy3 -m nightwatch.server.

For more possible ways to run the server, please refer to the socketify.py documentation.

Configuration is available at:

• *nix systems: ~/.config/nightwatch/config.json
• Windows: %AppData%\Local\Nightwatch\config.json

The Nightwatch client currently allows you to store custom colors and username data there.
The server currently only uses it for server.name. Although that is prone to change.