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@papercups-io/chat-widget

Papercups chat widget

1.0.33-beta.0
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Version published: 4 years ago

Maintainers: 2

Created: 4 years ago

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Papercups chat widget

Demo

Available at https://app.papercups.io/demo

demo

Install

npm install --save @papercups-io/chat-widget

Usage

First, sign up at https://app.papercups.io/register to get your account token. Your account token is what you will use to pass in as the accountId prop below.

Using in HTML

Paste the code below between your <head> and </head> tags:

<script>
  window.Papercups = {
    config: {
      accountId: 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx',
      title: 'Welcome to Papercups!',
      subtitle: 'Ask us anything in the chat window below 😊',
      newMessagePlaceholder: 'Start typing...',
      primaryColor: '#13c2c2',
      // Optionally pass in a default greeting
      greeting: 'Hi there! How can I help you?',
      // Optionally pass in metadata to identify the customer
      customer: {
        name: 'Test User',
        email: 'test@test.com',
        external_id: '123',
      },
      // Optionally specify the base URL
      baseUrl: 'https://app.papercups.io',
      // Add this if you want to require the customer to enter
      // their email before being able to send you a message
      requireEmailUpfront: true,
      // Add this if you want to indicate when you/your agents
      // are online or offline to your customers
      showAgentAvailability: true,
    },
  };
</script>
<script
  type="text/javascript"
  async
  defer
  src="https://app.papercups.io/widget.js"
></script>

Using in React

Place the code below in any pages on which you would like to render the widget. If you'd like to render it in all pages by default, place it in the root component of your app.

import React from 'react';

import ChatWidget from '@papercups-io/chat-widget';

const ExamplePage = () => {
  return (
    <>
      {/*
        Put <ChatWidget /> at the bottom of whatever pages you would
        like to render the widget on, or in your root/router component
        if you would like it to render on every page
      */}
      <ChatWidget
        accountId='xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx'
        title='Welcome to Papercups!'
        subtitle='Ask us anything in the chat window below 😊'
        newMessagePlaceholder='Start typing...'
        primaryColor='#13c2c2'
        // Optionally pass in a default greeting
        greeting='Hi there! How can I help you?'
        // Optionally pass in metadata to identify the customer
        customer={{
          name: 'Test User',
          email: 'test@test.com',
          external_id: '123',
        }}
        // Optionally specify the base URL
        baseUrl='https://app.papercups.io'
        // Add this if you want to require the customer to enter
        // their email before being able to send you a message
        requireEmailUpfront
        // Add this if you want to indicate when you/your agents
        // are online or offline to your customers
        showAgentAvailability
      />
    </>
  );
};

Options

These are the props you can pass into your <ChatWidget /> React component, or the fields you can specify in your Papercups.config:

Prop	Type	Value	Default
`accountId`	`string`	Your Papercups account token	N/A
`title`	`string`	The title in the header of your chat widget	Welcome!
`subtitle`	`string`	The subtitle in the header of your chat widget	How can we help you?
`newMessagePlaceholder`	`string`	The placeholder text in the new message input	Start typing...
`primaryColor`	`string`	The theme color of your chat widget	`1890ff`
`greeting`	`string`	An optional initial message to greet your customers with	N/A
`showAgentAvailability`	`boolean`	If you want to show whether you (or your agents) are online or not	`false`
`agentAvailableText`	`string`	The text shown when you (or your agents) are online	We're online right now!
`agentUnavailableText`	`string`	The text shown when you (and your agents) are offline	We're away at the moment.
`customer`	`object`	Identifying information for the customer, including `name`, `email`, and `external_id`	N/A
`baseUrl`	`string`	The base URL of your API if you're self-hosting Papercups	https://app.papercups.io
`iframeUrlOverride`	`string`	An override of the iframe URL we use to render the chat, if you chose to self-host that as well	https://chat-widget.papercups.io
`requireEmailUpfront`	`boolean`	If you want to require unidentified customers to provide their email before they can message you	`false`
`defaultIsOpen`	`boolean`	If you want the chat widget to open as soon as it loads	`false`
`customIconUrl`	`string`	A link to a custom icon image URL	N/A

Development

To build the project, run npm start in the root directory. (If you're running it for the first time, you'll have to run npm install first.)

To test it out, use the /example directory:

cd example
npm install
npm start

This will start a development server on localhost:3000 by default, and open up the example app in your browser.

When creating a pull request, be sure to include a screenshot! 🎨

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Package last updated on 16 Sep 2020

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