react-live-chat-customerly

React Live Chat from Customerly

Add the most powerful Live Chat to your React app.

⚙️ Install

Using npm

Run npm install --save react-live-chat-customerly

Using yarn

Run yarn add react-live-chat-customerly

🚀 How to use

To integrate Customerly Livechat to your React app, you need to have an account with Customerly. Sign up here.

import {CustomerlyProvider} from "react-live-chat-customerly";

ReactDOM.render(
    <CustomerlyProvider appId={"YOUR_APP_ID"}>
        <App/>
    </CustomerlyProvider>,
    document.getElementById("root")
);

And then, you can use the useCustomerly hook to load the messenger, and interact with it.

const App: FunctionComponent = () => {
    const { load } = useCustomerly();

    useEffect(() => {
        load({ ... })
    }, []);
    
    return (
        <Things />
    )
}

useCustomerly

This hook exposes all the available methods mentioned in the documentation, check it out.

• load - The entry point of Customerly, it loads the messenger in the webpage
• update - Same as load, but to refresh the messenger (e.g. after a sign in you might want to authenticate the user)
• open - Open programmatically the messenger
• close - Close programmatically the messenger
• show - Show programmatically the messenger
• hide - Hide programmatically the messenger
• event - Track an event for the user in the current session
• attribute - Track a property for the user in the current session
• sendNewMessage - Send a new message
• showNewMessage - Open and prefill the messenger with the specified message
• registerCallback - Register a callback (see available callbacks) fired by the messenger during the lifecycle

🙋 Contributing

If you have improvements that you'd like to see, or encounter any bugs, feel free to create an issue. Alternatively, please open a PR, and make sure that the new code is properly tested and all the steps.

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