javiergold112 / react-typescript-chatwidget-embed

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React Chat Widget

Features

demonstration

Installation

npm

npm install --save react-chat-widget

yarn

yarn add react-chat-widget

Usage

1- Add the Widget component to your root component

import React from 'react';
import { Widget } from 'react-chat-widget';

import 'react-chat-widget/lib/styles.css';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Widget />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

2- The only required prop you need to use is the handleNewUserMessage, which will receive the input from the user.

import React from 'react';
import { Widget } from 'react-chat-widget';

import 'react-chat-widget/lib/styles.css';

function App() {
  const handleNewUserMessage = (newMessage) => {
    console.log(`New message incoming! ${newMessage}`);
    // Now send the message throught the backend API
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Widget
        handleNewUserMessage={handleNewUserMessage}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

3- Import the methods for you to add messages in the Widget. (See messages)

import React from 'react';
import { Widget, addResponseMessage } from 'react-chat-widget';

import 'react-chat-widget/lib/styles.css';

function App() {
  useEffect(() => {
    addResponseMessage('Welcome to this awesome chat!');
  }, []);

  const handleNewUserMessage = (newMessage) => {
    console.log(`New message incoming! ${newMessage}`);
    // Now send the message throught the backend API
    addResponseMessage(response);
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Widget
        handleNewUserMessage={handleNewUserMessage}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

4- Customize the widget to match your app design! You can add both props to manage the title of the widget and the avatar it will use. Of course, feel free to change the styles the widget will have in the CSS

import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { Widget, addResponseMessage } from 'react-chat-widget';

import 'react-chat-widget/lib/styles.css';

import logo from './logo.svg';

function App() {
  useEffect(() => {
    addResponseMessage('Welcome to this **awesome** chat!');
  }, []);

  const handleNewUserMessage = (newMessage) => {
    console.log(`New message incoming! ${newMessage}`);
    // Now send the message throught the backend API
  };

    return (
      <div className="App">
        <Widget
          handleNewUserMessage={handleNewUserMessage}
          profileAvatar={logo}
          title="My new awesome title"
          subtitle="And my cool subtitle"
        />
      </div>
    );
}

export default App;

API

Props

prop type required default value description
handleNewUserMessage (...args: any[]) => any YES Function to handle the user input, will receive the full text message when submitted
title string NO 'Welcome' Title of the widget
subtitle string NO 'This is your chat subtitle' Subtitle of the widget
senderPlaceHolder string NO 'Type a message...' The placeholder of the message input
profileAvatar string NO The profile image that will be set on the responses
profileClientAvatar string NO The profile image that will be set on the client messages
titleAvatar string NO The picture image that will be shown next to the chat title
showCloseButton boolean NO false Show or hide the close button in full screen mode
fullScreenMode boolean NO false Allow the use of full screen in full desktop mode
autofocus boolean NO true Autofocus or not the user input
launcher (handleToggle) => ElementType NO Custom Launcher component to use instead of the default
handleQuickButtonClicked (...args: any[]) => any NO Function to handle the user clicking a quick button, will receive the 'value' when clicked.
showTimeStamp boolean NO true Show time stamp on messages
chatId string NO 'rcw-chat-container' Chat container id for a11y
handleToggle (...args: any[]) => any NO 'rcw-chat-container' Function to handle when the widget is toggled, will receive the toggle status
launcherOpenLabel string NO 'Open chat' Alt value for the laucher when closed
launcherCloseLabel string NO 'Close chat' Alt value for the laucher when open
launcherOpenImg string NO '' local or remote image url, if not provided it will show default image
launcherCloseImg string NO '' local or remote image url, if not provided it will show default image
sendButtonAlt string NO 'Send' Send button alt for a11y purposes
handleTextInputChange (event) => any NO Prop that triggers on input change
handleSubmit (event) => any NO Prop that triggers when a message is submitted, used for custom validation
resizable boolean NO false Prop that allows to resize the widget by dragging it's left border
emojis boolean NO false enable emoji picker
showBadge boolean NO true Prop that allows to show or hide the unread message badge

Styles

To change the styles you need the widget to have, simply override the CSS classes wrapping them within the containers and add your own style to them! All classes are prefixed with rcw- so they don't override your other classes in case you are not hasing them. To override, you can do, for expample:

.rcw-conversation-container > .rcw-header {
  background-color: red;
}

.rcw-message > .rcw-response {
  background-color: black;
  color: white;
}

That way, you can leave the JS clean and keep the styles within the CSS.

Messages

As of v3.0, messages now have an optional ID that can be added on creation.If you want to add new messages, you can use the following methods:

Markdown is supported for both the responses and user messages.

Widget behavior

You can also control certain actions of the widget:

Widget components

Custom Launcher

You can use a custom component for the Launcher if you need one that's not the default, simply use the launcher prop:

import React from 'react';
import { Widget } from 'react-chat-widget';

...

function MyApp() {
  const getCustomLauncher = (handleToggle) =>
    <button onClick={handleToggle}>This is my launcher component!</button>

  return (
    <Widget
      ...
      launcher={handleToggle => getCustomLauncher(handleToggle)}
    />
  )
}

getCustomLauncher() is a method that will return the Launcher component as seen in the example. By default, the function passed by that prop, will receive the handleToggle parameter which is the method that will toggle the widget.