Nylas Conversation
Nylas Conversation (<nylas-conversation>) is part of the Nylas Components library that lets you build event/calendar applications in minutes. Use Nylas Conversation with your Nylas account or by passing in your own JSON data.
Nylas Conversation is currently in active development. Want to contribute? Find out how!
Table of Contents
Installation
In your JavaScript application, you can install Nylas Conversation with:
- npm
npm i @nylas/components-conversation - Yarn
yarn add @nylas/components-conversation
Alternatively, on an html page, you can load the Conversation using a script tag:
<head>
<!-- Import the script from CDN -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@nylas/components-conversation"></script>
</head>
For both installation options, in the body of your page, you can instantiate the conversation component with <nylas-conversation></nylas-conversation>.
Using It in Your App
All Nylas components have two ways of displaying data to your end-user:
Fetching data directly from Nylas
Setup
If you haven't registered for a Nylas account yet, you can do so at dashboard.nylas.com. Once there, head to the Components tab and create a new Conversation component.
You'll be guided through the component setup and be given the option to tie your component to a thread. Review the Conversation Documentation.
Allowed domains
During the setup process, you'll be prompted to provide a list of allowed domains. Be sure to add any domains you'll be testing your app on, including localhost, and any staging and production URLs you might use.
Passing in your own data
Nylas Conversation can be used as a UI on top of any thread data that you provide. Threads should follow the Nylas thread object standard.
The property to use for this is messages. You can pass in a list of JSON message objects.
const staticMessages =
[
{
"account_id": "ehiyqnpjag93ylo6etchcdhr9",
"bcc": [],
"cc": [],
"date": 1629163362,
"files": [],
"from": [{ "email": "demo@nylas.com", "name": "Demo User" }],
"id": "bp1y6jnepx3t9uyr548b4nsdp",
"labels": [
{
"display_name": "Sent Mail",
"id": "6n0whoxa8tdpvreq01mrgvr3d",
"name": "sent"
}
],
"object": "message",
"reply_to": [],
"snippet": "Hey there, Welcome to Nylas! Glad to have you onboard",
"starred": false,
"subject": "Welcome to Nylas",
"thread_id": "dclpsfd1i46mukv77b8y0qe4s",
"to": [
{
"email": "jack.smith@gmail.com",
"name": "Jack Smith"
}
],
"unread": false
},
{
"account_id": "ehiyqnpjag93ylo6etchcdhr9",
"bcc": [],
"cc": [],
"date": 1629163387,
"files": [],
"from": [
{
"email": "jack.smith@gmail.com",
"name": "Jack Smith"
}
],
"id": "60mqc30m5cfffi7mii61oajxt",
"labels": [
{
"display_name": "Inbox",
"id": "5izbd0saul1qtmdp1jakkkdhx",
"name": "inbox"
},
{
"display_name": "Important",
"id": "2wx96u918ncyeuv9yzjroo43g",
"name": "important"
}
],
"object": "message",
"reply_to": [],
"snippet": "Thank you! Excited to be here.",
"starred": false,
"subject": "Re: Welcome to Nylas",
"thread_id": "dclpsfd1i46mukv77b8y0qe4s",
"to": [{ "email": "demo@nylas.com", "name": "Demo User" }],
"unread": false
}
]Then pass the array into your component using any JavaScript.
<nylas-conversation thread_id={thread_id}>
<nylas-conversation messages={messages}>You can also use plain JavaScript as an attribute.
document.querySelector("nylas-conversation").thread_id = staticThreadID;
document.querySelector("nylas-conversation").messages = staticMessages;Properties
Nylas Conversation allows for several properties that affect the layout and functionality of your component. You can find a complete list of properties within our Documentation for Nylas Conversation
Events and Callbacks
You can listen to certain user events from your application by adding an event listener to your component.
For example, you can listen for a threadClicked event with the following code:
document
.querySelector("nylas-conversation")
.addEventListener("sendMessageClicked", (event) => {
let { detail } = event;
console.log("Send message clicked: ", detail.thread);
});A list of emitted events is available on our Documentation for Nylas Conversation
Contributing
Please refer to our Contributing Guidelines for information about how to get involved. We welcome bug reports, questions, and pull requests.
- Git clone
git@github.com:nylas/components.git - Run
yarn install - Run
yarn start; your browser will loadhttp://localhost:8000and show you a list of available running components
Testing
yarn cy:open will launch our end-to-end tests in a browser
tests will automatically be run on push from push.yaml