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stream-chat
Advanced tools
The stream-chat npm package is a powerful tool for building chat applications. It provides a comprehensive set of features for real-time messaging, user management, and chat room creation, among others. It is designed to be highly customizable and scalable, making it suitable for a wide range of applications from simple chat widgets to complex messaging platforms.
Real-time Messaging
This feature allows you to send real-time messages in a chat channel. The code sample demonstrates how to initialize the StreamChat client, create a channel, and send a message.
const StreamChat = require('stream-chat').StreamChat;
const client = new StreamChat('api_key');
async function sendMessage() {
const channel = client.channel('messaging', 'general', {
name: 'General Chat',
});
await channel.create();
await channel.sendMessage({
text: 'Hello, world!',
user_id: 'user123',
});
}
sendMessage();
User Management
This feature allows you to manage users within the chat application. The code sample demonstrates how to create or update a user with specific attributes.
const StreamChat = require('stream-chat').StreamChat;
const client = new StreamChat('api_key');
async function createUser() {
await client.upsertUser({
id: 'user123',
name: 'John Doe',
role: 'user',
});
}
createUser();
Channel Management
This feature allows you to manage chat channels. The code sample demonstrates how to create a new chat channel with a specific name and type.
const StreamChat = require('stream-chat').StreamChat;
const client = new StreamChat('api_key');
async function createChannel() {
const channel = client.channel('messaging', 'general', {
name: 'General Chat',
});
await channel.create();
}
createChannel();
Message Reactions
This feature allows users to add reactions to messages. The code sample demonstrates how to send a message and then add a 'like' reaction to that message.
const StreamChat = require('stream-chat').StreamChat;
const client = new StreamChat('api_key');
async function addReaction() {
const channel = client.channel('messaging', 'general');
await channel.create();
const message = await channel.sendMessage({
text: 'Hello, world!',
user_id: 'user123',
});
await channel.sendReaction(message.id, {
type: 'like',
user_id: 'user123',
});
}
addReaction();
Socket.IO is a library that enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication between web clients and servers. While it is more general-purpose and can be used for various real-time applications, it requires more manual setup for chat-specific features compared to stream-chat.
Pusher is a service that provides APIs for building real-time web and mobile applications. Pusher Channels specifically can be used for real-time messaging, but it lacks some of the higher-level abstractions and features specifically tailored for chat applications that stream-chat offers.
Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications. Firebase Realtime Database and Firestore can be used to build real-time chat applications. However, Firebase is a more general-purpose backend-as-a-service and may require more custom development to achieve the same level of chat-specific functionality provided by stream-chat.
stream-chat-js is the official JavaScript client for Stream Chat, a service for building chat applications.
You can sign up for a Stream account at https://getstream.io/chat/get_started/.
npm install stream-chat
yarn add stream-chat
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/stream-chat"></script>
Documentation for this JavaScript client are available at the Stream website
April 9th 2019 - 0.7.2
FAQs
JS SDK for the Stream Chat API
The npm package stream-chat receives a total of 153,929 weekly downloads. As such, stream-chat popularity was classified as popular.
We found that stream-chat demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 10 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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