The official React Native and Expo components for Stream Chat, a service for building chat applications.
Quick Links
- Stream Chat API product overview
- Register to get an API key for Stream Chat
- React Native Chat Tutorial
- Chat UI Kit
- Release Notes
The best place to start is the React Native Chat Tutorial. It teaches you how to use this SDK and also shows how to make common changes.
This repo includes 2 example apps. One that's used with Expo, and one for native.
- Make sure node version is >= v10.13.0
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yarn global add expo-cli git clone https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-react-native.git cd stream-chat-react-native/examples/ExpoMessaging yarn && yarn start
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Please make sure you have installed necessary dependencies depending on your development OS and target OS. Follow the guidelines given on official react native documentation for installing dependencies: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started#
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Make sure node version is >= v10.13.0
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Start the simulator
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git clone https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-react-native.git cd stream-chat-react-native/examples/NativeMessaging yarn install
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- For iOS
react-native run-ios
- For android
react-native run-android
If you run into following error on android:
Execution failed for task ':app:validateSigningDebug'. > Keystore file '/path_to_project/stream-chat-react-native/examples/NativeMessaging/android/app/debug.keystore' not found for signing config 'debug'.
You can generate the debug keystore by running this command in the
android/app/
directory:keytool -genkey -v -keystore debug.keystore -storepass android -alias androiddebugkey -keypass android -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
- Reference - For iOS
The styleguidist docs for stream-chat-react-native document how all the components work.
The React Native components are created using the stream-chat-js library. If you're customizing the components it's important to learn how the Chat Server API works. You'll want to review our JS chat API docs.
- Navigation between different component is something we expect consumers to implement. You can checkout the example given in this repository
Library currently exposes following components:
- Avatar
- Chat
- Channel
- MessageList
- TypingIndicator
- MessageInput
- MessageSimple
- ChannelList
- Thread
- ChannelPreviewMessenger
- CloseButton
- IconBadge
You can see detailed documentation about the components at https://getstream.github.io/stream-chat-react-native
yarn global add expo-cli
# expo-cli supports following Node.js versions:
# * >=8.9.0 <9.0.0 (Maintenance LTS)
# * >=10.13.0 <11.0.0 (Active LTS)
# * >=12.0.0 (Current Release)
expo init StreamChatExpoExample
cd StreamChatExpoExample
# Add chat expo package
yarn add stream-chat-expo
# If you are using stream-chat-expo <= 0.4.0 and expo <= 34, then you don't need to add @react-native-community/netinfo as dependency. Since previously we used use NetInfo from react-native package.
yarn add @react-native-community/netinfo
Please check Example to see usage of the components.
OR you can swap this file for your App.js
in the root folder with additional following steps:
yarn add [email protected] react-native-gesture-handler react-native-reanimated
and finally
yarn start
react-native init StreamChatReactNativeExample
cd StreamChatReactNativeExample
yarn add stream-chat-react-native
# https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-netinfo#react-native-compatibility
# For React native 0.59.x - use @react-native-community/[email protected]
# For React native <= 0.58.x - use @react-native-community/[email protected]
yarn add @react-native-community/[email protected]
# https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-image-picker#react-native-compatibility
yarn add [email protected]
yarn add react-native-document-picker
react-native link @react-native-community/netinfo
# if you are plannign to use image picker or file picker or both
react-native link react-native-image-picker
react-native link react-native-document-picker
Please check Example to see usage of components.
OR you can swap this file for your App.js
in root folder with additional following steps:
yarn add [email protected]
yarn add [email protected] react-native-reanimated
react-native link react-native-gesture-handler
react-native link react-native-reanimated
If you are planning to use image picker, there are some additional steps to be done. You can find them here - https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-image-picker/blob/master/docs/Install.md
If you are planning to use file/document picker, you need to enable iCloud capability in your app - https://github.com/Elyx0/react-native-document-picker#reminder
and finally
react-native run-ios
react-native init StreamChatReactNativeExample
cd StreamChatReactNativeExample
yarn add stream-chat-react-native
yarn add @react-native-community/netinfo react-native-image-picker react-native-document-picker
cd ios && pod install && cd ..
Just to be sure, please verify you are using appropriate version of following packages as per your react-native version.
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netinfo : https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-netinfo#react-native-compatibility
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react-native-image-picker : https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-image-picker#react-native-compatibility
Please check Example to see usage of components.
OR you can swap this file for your App.js
in root folder with additional following steps:
yarn add [email protected]
yarn add react-native-gesture-handler react-native-reanimated
cd ios && pod install && cd ..
If you are planning to use image picker, there are some additional steps to be done. You can find them here - https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-image-picker/blob/master/docs/Install.md
If you are planning to use file/document picker, you need to enable iCloud capability in your app - https://github.com/Elyx0/react-native-document-picker#reminder
and finally
iOS:
react-native run-ios
Note for Android:
If you are using androidx app:
AndroidX is a major step forward in the Android ecosystem, and the old support library artifacts are being deprecated. For 0.60, React Native has been migrated over to AndroidX. This is a breaking change, and your native code and dependencies will need to be migrated as well.
(reference: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2019/07/03/version-60#androidx-support)
In current context, dependencies such as react-native-document-picker
and (if you are using react-navigation
) react-native-gesture-handler
, react-native-reanimated
don't have androidx support. But awesome tool named jetifier is quite usefull to patch these dependencies with androidx support.
NOTE If you are planning to use file picker functionality, make sure you enable iCloud capability in your app
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Upgrade from 0.1.x to 0.2.x:
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0.2.x added support for react native 0.60. Dependencies like
react-native-image-picker
,react-native-document-picker
andnetinfo
have been taken out of hard dependencies and moved to peer dependencies and thus will have to be installed manually on consumer end (Reference) -
React native 0.60 came with autolinking functionality, that means if some native libraries are linked manually before upgrade, they will have to be unliked so that react native can autolink them (Reference)
react-native unlink react-native-image-picker react-native unlink react-native-document-picker react-native unlink @react-native-community/netinfo
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React native 0.60 has been migrated over to AndroidX. In current context, dependencies such as
react-native-document-picker
and (if you are usingreact-navigation
)react-native-gesture-handler
,react-native-reanimated
don't have androidx support. But awesome tool named jetifier is quite usefull to patch these dependencies with androidx support. -
CocoaPods are not part of React Native's iOS project (ref). Thus make sure to install all the pod dependencies.
cd ios && pod install && cd ..
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When you execute
react-native run-ios
for the first time, it starts a metro bundler in parallel. It can result into some errors, since build process isn't complete yet. Try the following to fix this:- Close/stop the metro bundler process.
- Let the build process finish completely, it can take usually around 2-3 minutes for the first time.
- Start the metro bundler manually by executing
yarn start
insidestream-chat-react-native/examples/NativeMessaging
directory.
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When you execute
react-native run-android
, you may (not necessarily) run into following error:info Starting JS server... info Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && ./gradlew app:installDebug)... Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 incompatible Daemon could not be reused, use --status for details FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project ':@react-native-community_netinfo'. > SDK location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable. * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org BUILD FAILED in 13s error Could not install the app on the device, read the error above for details. Make sure you have an Android emulator running or a device connected and have set up your Android development environment: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html error Command failed: ./gradlew app:installDebug. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
To resolve this, do the following
- Craete a file named
local.properties
insidestream-chat-react-native/examples/NativeMessaging/android
directory - Put the this line in that file. Make sure sdk path is correctly mentioned as per your system:
sdk.dir=/Users/{user_name}/Library/Android/sdk/
- Rerun
react-native run-android
instream-chat-react-native/examples/NativeMessaging
directory
- Craete a file named