react-chat-ui

🙊 react-chat-ui

A library of React components for building chat UI's.

!!Use at own risk!!

This project is still in the VERY early stages of development. If you encounter a bug or have a feature request, please create an issue and/or tweet at me here.

Installation

npm install react-chat-ui --save

Basic Usage

import { ChatFeed } from 'react-chat-ui'

// Your code stuff...

render() {

  return (

    // Your JSX...

    <ChatFeed
      messages={this.state.messages} // Boolean: list of message objects
      isTyping={this.state.is_typing} // Boolean: is the recipient typing
      hasInputField={false} // Boolean: use our input, or use your own
      bubblesCentered={false} //Boolean should the bubbles be centered in the feed?
      // JSON: Custom bubble styles
      bubbleStyles={
        {
          text: {
            fontSize: 30
          },
          chatbubble: {
            borderRadius: 70,
            padding: 40
          }
        }
      }
    />

    // Your JSX...

  )

}

Make sure to keep a list of proper message objects in your class state. Like so:

//...
this.state = {
  messages : [
    // To be deprecated and use Message objects instead.
    {type:1, message: "I'm the recipient! (The person you're talking to)"}, // Gray bubble
    {type:0, message: "I'm the user!"}, // Blue bubble
  ],
  //...
}
//...

Development

browserify demo/es5.js -o demo/bundle.js