COMMT: Chat Plugin for React Native

Welcome to Commt, a powerful chat plugin designed to seamlessly integrate secure and customizable chat functionalities into your React Native applications. Offering AES encryption as the default and end-to-end (E2E) support, Commt ensures a secure and reliable real-time communication experience for your users.

Features

• Written in TypeScript
• Fully customizable pre-build components
• Multiple projects support with only one client configuration
• AES encryption as default and end-to-end (E2E) support
• Webhooks usage flexibility
• Customizable and easy to manage system messages
• Typing, user online and message read indicators
• Emoji keyboard and all emoji types support
• Hooks usage flexibility

Installation

• NPM: npm i -S @commt/rn-sdk react-native-svg
• Yarn: yarn add @commt/rn-sdk react-native-svg
• cd ios && pod install
• Since @commt/rn-sdk depended react-native-svg please install react-native-svg too.

Config

1. Create react-native.config.js and add following

   module.exports = {
       project: {
           ios: {},
           android: {},
       },
       assets: ["node_modules/@commt/rn-sdk/assets/"]
   }

2. link assets - yarn react-native link

For detailed installation instructions and configuration options, please refer to our documentation.

Usage

Get started with Commt in just a few steps:

• Initialize Commt: Import the Provider module and set up the chat plugin in your application by wrap your app with it.
• Customize UI: Tailor the UI elements to match your app's aesthetics. Trigger the useToggleTheme hook by passing theme values and make the components custom.
• Implement Secure Chat: Utilize the secure and encrypted chat functionalities.

Check out our documentation for comprehensive usage examples and API reference.

Example

You can get client configs info from Commt Dashboard

App.tsx

import CommtProvider from "@commt/rn-sdk";
import { useInitiate } from "@commt/rn-sdk/hooks";

const ClientConfig = {
  apiKey: "123456789?",
  projectId: "0987654321?",
  secret: "123456789018A_7JzPo?23F+4y#erPL" // Must to be 16, 24 or 32 bytes
};

const App = CommtProvider(() => {
  useInitiate(ClientConfig); // Initiate a client

  return (
    {/* All your NavigationContainer, DeepLinkContainer etc. */}
  );
});

or

const Main = CommtProvider(() => {
  return (
    {/* All your NavigationContainer, DeepLinkContainer etc. */}
  );
});

const App = () => {
  useInitiate(ClientConfig); // Initiate a client

  return (
    <ThemeProvider>
      <Main />
    </ThemeProvider>
  );
};

Keep in mind that, Commt has it's own ThemeProvider and if you Wrap your whole app with CommtProvider and your ThemeProvider has different values then you won't able to set theme values for Commt as you expected!

Home.tsx

import { useSetMessages, useSetRooms, useSetUsers } from "@commt/rn-sdk/hooks";

const Home = () => {
  // ...

  useEffect(async () => {
    await useSetUsers(usersArray); // Set users for commt
    await useSetRooms(roomsArray); // Set rooms for commt
    useSetMessages(messagesArray); // Set messages for commt
  }, [usersArray, roomsArray, messagesArray]);

  // ...

  return (
    <SafeAreaView>
      <Text
        style={styles.buttonText}
        onPress={() => navigation.navigate("Messages")}>
        Go Messages
      </Text>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};

Messages-List.tsx

import {
  QuickChat,
  MessageList,
  SearchInput,
  MessagesHeader
} from "@commt/rn-sdk/components";

const Messages = () => {
  // ...

  return (
    <Container>
      <MessagesHeader />
      <SearchInput />
      <InnerContainer>
        <QuickChat onPress={navigateToChat} />
        <MessageList onPress={navigateToChat} />
      </InnerContainer>
    </Container>
  );
};

Chat.tsx

import { ChatHeader, Chat } from "@commt/rn-sdk/components";

const Chats = () => {
  const route = useRoute<RouteProp<RootStackParamList, "Chats">>();
  const roomId = route.params.roomId;
  const participants = route.params.participants;

  return (
    <Container>
      <ChatHeader
        roomId={roomId}
        participants={participants}
        leftComponent={YOUR_CUSTOM_COMPONENT} // Optional
        onUserProfileClick={YOUR_CALLBACK_FUNCTION} // Optional: Triggered on username/avatar press.
      />
      <Chat
        roomId={roomId}
        participants={participants}
        loadMoreMessages={YOUR_LOAD_MORE_MESSAGES_ACTION}
      />
    </Container>
  );
};

Customize UI Component

Utilize the useToggleTheme hook to effortlessly customize UI component colors.

Home.tsx

import { useToggleTheme} from "@commt/rn-sdk/hooks";

const toggleThemeProps = {
  passive: "#8D9293",
  bubble: "#A91A24",
  bcg: "#272C2D",
  searchText: "#FFF",
  read1: "#1B9C32",
  read2: "#E57A81",
  app1: "#F8FAFA",
  app2: "#D9DBDB",
  app3: "#41494B",
  app4: "#3FC610",
  app5: "#1A1D1E",
  app6: "#FBE9EA",
  app7: "#DC4D57",
  app8: "#E57A81",
};

const Home = () => {
  // ...
  const toggleThemeAction = useToggleTheme();

  const handleToggleTheme = () => {
    // update @commt/rn-sdk package theme colors
    toggleThemeAction(toggleThemeProps);
  };

  return (
    // ...
    <Button onPress={handleToggleTheme} title="Update Colors"/>
  );
};

Toggle Theme Props Definition

Prop name	Required	Type	Affected UI Components Parts
passive	Yes	String	"QuickChat" title, passive username, online text under username, username in bubbles(group chat), search bar icon and placeholder, chat input placeholder and emoji icon, three dots icon, message time(RoomCard, Chat components), message text(RoomCard component) and day text between message bubbles colors
bubble	Yes	String	Self user bubble bcg color
bcg	Yes	String	App bcg color
searchText	Yes	String	Search bar search text color
read1	Yes	String	Message read icon(RoomCard component) and typing text colors
read2	Yes	String	Message had read badge icon color under bubble
app1	Yes	String	"Messages" title, popUpButtons title, username and system message text colors
app2	Yes	String	Chat input active text, send button passive bcg and opposite user bubble text colors
app3	Yes	String	Oppsite user bubble bcg, stroke, search bar bcg, chat input bcg and chat input border colors
app4	Yes	String	Online user indicator color
app5	Yes	String	Chat area bcg color
app6	Yes	String	Unread badge text color
app7	Yes	String	Send button active bcg color
app8	Yes	String	Unread badge bcg color
ui1	Yes	String	Send button icon and self user bubble text color
ui2	Yes	String	Chat header and footer bcg color

Compatibility

Commt is compatible with:

• React Native
• ReactJS
• NodeJS

Support and Feedback

For any questions, feedback or issues, feel free to reach out to us via contact@commt.co.

License

MIT

Contributors

• Mesut KILINCASLAN mkilincaslan
• Sedanur Akçil sedanurakcil