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:

prop	type	description
*agentProfile	object	Represents your product or service's customer service agent. Fields: teamName, imageUrl
onMessageWasSent	function(message)	Called when a message a message is sent with a message object as an argument.
messageList	[message]	An array of message objects to be rendered as a conversation.
showEmoji	bool	A bool indicating whether or not to show the emoji button
showFile	bool	A bool indicating whether or not to show the file chooser button
onKeyPress	func	A function (userInput) => console.log(userInput) used to do something with the user input. The function is invoked debounced at 300ms
onDelete	func	A function (msg) => console.log(msg) used to delete a sent message. If this props is set, a delete button will be shown in the top right corner of each message sent by the user to a partner. You can set any property on the message object (an id property for instance) and then use this property to call some backend api to delete the message.

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'
  }
}