joke2k/react-beautiful-chat

react-beautiful-chat

react-beautiful-chat provides an intercom-like chat window that can be included easily in any project for free. It provides no messaging facilities, only the view component.

react-beautiful-chat is an improved version of react-chat-window (which you can find here)

Features

• Customizeable
• Backend agnostic
• Free

Demo

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Example
• Components

Installation

$ npm install react-beautiful-chat

Example

import React, {Component} from 'react'
import {render} from 'react-dom'
import {Launcher} from '../../src'

class Demo extends Component {

  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = {
      messageList: messageHistory
    };
  }

  _onMessageWasSent(message) {
    this.setState({
      messageList: [...this.state.messageList, message]
    })
  }

  _sendMessage(text) {
    if (text.length > 0) {
      this.setState({
        messageList: [...this.state.messageList, {
          author: 'them',
          type: 'text',
          data: { text }
        }]
      })
    }
  }

  render() {
    return (<div>
      <Launcher
        agentProfile={{
          teamName: 'react-beautiful-chat',
          imageUrl: 'https://a.slack-edge.com/66f9/img/avatars-teams/ava_0001-34.png'
        }}
        onMessageWasSent={this._onMessageWasSent.bind(this)}
        messageList={this.state.messageList}
        showEmoji
      />
    </div>)
  }
}

For more detailed examples see the demo folder.

Components

Launcher

Launcher is the only component needed to use react-beautiful-chat. It will react dynamically to changes in messages. All new messages must be added via a change in props as shown in the example.

Launcher props:

Message Objects

Message objects are rendered differently depending on their type. Currently, only text and emoji types are supported. Each message object has an author field which can have the value 'me' or 'them'.

{
  author: 'them',
  type: 'text',
  data: {
    text: 'some text'
  }
}

{
  author: 'me',
  type: 'emoji',
  data: {
    code: 'someCode'
  }
}

{
  author: 'me',
  type: 'file',
  data: {
    name: 'file.mp3',
    url: 'https:123.rf/file.mp3'
  }
}