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Overview
The React Chat UI component is a lightweight, developer-friendly chat interface designed for building robust chat experiences in React applications. Designed for performance and flexibility, it supports typing indicators, message suggestions, adaptive time breaks, and lazy loading. The component seamlessly renders a responsive React chat window suitable for support, collaboration, and messaging apps. Use this solution to build a support chat, internal messenger, or customer-facing chat UI in website.
Messages and Avatar
Display user messages with avatars or fallback initials and automatically align current user messages to the right. Bind any message schema to support custom layouts for a consistent chat window in React applications.
Message status
Track chat progress by showing statuses such as sent, delivered, and read. Customize each state with icons and tooltips to keep users informed about message delivery within your chat widget.
Smart Suggestions
Enhance user interaction by offering predefined replies or quick action buttons. These message suggestions help accelerate responses and guide the conversation flow effectively within the chat component.
Adaptive Time Breaks
Insert contextual separators like “Today” or “Yesterday” between messages to improve readability. These are auto-inserted based on time stamps and can be fully customized.
Typing Indicator
Show real-time typing indicators for individual users or group chats. Improve responsiveness and user engagement by customizing the placement of animated indicators in your chat.
Header toolbar
Add custom controls like voice calls, chat settings, or new chat creation. Easily modify iconography, alignment, or actions to suit your app’s context.
On-Demand Loading
Lazy-load older chat messages while scrolling upward, reducing initial payload size and boosting performance for long-running conversations in your React chat window.
Empty Chat Templating
Welcome users with branded messages, onboarding prompts, or custom graphics when the chat is empty. Customalize the first impression you give in your chat window.
Message Templating
Redesign how individual messages are presented by customizing the layout, background, fonts, or embedded content.
Footer Customization
Replace the default input boxes with custom UIs such as emoji pickers, rich text editors, or file attachments. Tailor the footer to support diverse interaction needs.
Built-in themes
Choose from Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap 5/4, Material, Fabric, Fluent, and high contrast themes. Customize them using Sass variables or our Theme Studio.
Globalization Support
Create a single multilingual React chat app:
- Localization: Load culture files and translate system messages like “{0} is typing”.
- RTL: Enable right-to-left layouts for Arabic, Hebrew, or Persian with enableRtl={true}.
- Locale-aware formatting: Ensure time stamps and date separators match the user’s cultural norms.
Keyboard Interactions
The component offers full keyboard navigation for accessibility:
- Enter: Send message or activate focused item
- Tab/Shift + Tab: Navigate focus
- Page Up/Page Down: Scroll message history.
- Ctrl + Home/End: Jump to beginning or end of chat
- Arrow Keys: Navigate toolbar.
- Space/Enter: Trigger toolbar actions.
Accessibility Compliance
Complies with WCAG 2.2, Section 508, and ARIA standards. Logical tab order, proper roles, and color contrast are baked in to ensure your React Chat UI is accessible from day one.
Developer-Friendly API
A fluent API with full TypeScript support, event hooks, and imperative methods. Easily integrate with Redux, MobX, or custom state management to control the chat behavior and lifecycle.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I customize the look and feel of messages in the React Chat UI?
You can customize message templates to control the layout, styles, colors, and embedded content using powerful templating support.
Can I show message delivery status like sent, delivered, or read?
Absolutely. You can show default statuses or define your own with corresponding icons and tooltips in your chat widget.
How does the typing indicator work in group chats?
The typing indicator updates in real-time and can be customized per user or group context to show who is currently typing.
Can I lazy-load older chat messages?
Yes. On-demand loading allows users to fetch older messages when scrolling upward, improving initial load performance in your chat widget.
Is the React Chat UI suitable for customer support applications?
Definitely. Its extensibility, real-time data binding, and accessibility make it ideal for building live chats for support systems within React applications.
What is the React Chat UI component used for?
It enables developers to create real-time messaging experiences within React applications using a fully customizable and lightweight chat window.
Does the component support WebSocket or SignalR for live messaging?
Yes, the React Chat UI can bind to any real-time messaging source, including WebSocket, SignalR, and custom pub/sub services to provide a live chat experience.
Is the chat component accessible and keyboard-friendly?
Yes, it conforms to WCAG 2.2 and ARIA best practices, with full keyboard navigation and screen-reader support.
Is RTL (Right-to-Left) layout supported?
Yes. The Chat UI can automatically flip layout and text direction when you enable RTL mode.
What themes are available for styling the chat UI?
Themes include Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Material, Fluent, Fabric, and high contrast. You can also create custom themes using Sass or the Theme Studio.
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