<vc-text-input>

This Web Component follows the open-wc recommendation and is meant to be used with the Vonage Client SDK In-App Messaging.

A goal is to simplify the code needed to create a chat room quickly. Please see the Creating a chat app tutorial to see an implementation using Vanilla JavaScript.

This Web Component can be used to replace a part of the Chat app UI.

Installation

npm i @vonage/vc-text-input

Usage

<script type="module">
  import '@vonage/vc-text-input/vc-text-input.js';
</script>

<vc-text-input></vc-text-input>

Attributes that can be used (optional):

• placeholder : set the text for the input's placeholder. Default is "Enter message".
• buttonText : set the text for the button. Default is "send".
• typingTimeout : set the number of milliseconds before sending the stop typing indication. Default is 500.

<vc-text-input placeholder="your placeholder text"  buttonText="enter" typingTimeout="1500" ></vc-text-input>

The vc-text-input Web Component can handle all its responsibilities in a Conversation.

First, get a reference to the element:

const vcTextInput = document.querySelector("vc-text-input");

Then, pass the Conversation object to the Web Component:

vcTextInput.client = client;
vcTextInput.conversationId = conversationId;

Note: To see where conversationId and client came from, see step 4 and step 11 in the tutorial.

Styling

By default, there are no styles applied to the Web Component.

The vc-text-input component uses CSS part to apply custom styles.

Here is a diagram that labels the parts of the component as well as the default style:

To style the input element, the part is "input". For the button element, the part is "button".

To get the styling shown in the image:

vc-text-input {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

vc-text-input::part(button) {
  color: white;
  padding: 5px 15px;
  background-color: transparent;
  border: 1px solid black;
  border-radius: 6px;
  cursor: pointer;
  background: #871fff;
  font-size: 1.4rem;
}

vc-text-input::part(input) {
  color: black;
  padding: 5px 15px;
  background-color: transparent;
  border: 1px solid black;
  border-radius: 6px;
  width: 100%;
  font-size: 1.4rem;
}

Another example could be:

vc-text-input::part(button) {
  color: red;
  border: 2px green solid;
  font-size: 30px;
  background-color: transparent;
}

vc-text-input::part(input) {
  color: red;
  border-radius: 0px;
  border: 4px blue dotted;
  background-color: yellow;
}

Tooling configs

For most of the tools, the configuration is in the package.json to minimize the amount of files in your project.

If you customize the configuration a lot, you can consider moving them to individual files.

Local Demo with web-dev-server

npm start

To run a local development server that serves the basic demo located in demo/index.html