chat-ui-react

A library of React Components for powering Yext Chat integrations.

See the full documentation here.

Getting Started

Install the library through NPM:

npm install @yext/chat-ui-react

Once the library and its peer dependencies are installed, our React Components should be nested inside the ChatHeadlessProvider. ChatHeadlessProvider requires a HeadlessConfig object with the appropriate credentials and configurations:

import {
  ChatHeadlessProvider,
  HeadlessConfig,
} from "@yext/chat-headless-react";
import { ChatPanel } from "@yext/chat-ui-react";

const config: HeadlessConfig = {
  apiKey: "<apiKey>",
  botId: "<botId>",
};

function App() {
  return (
    <ChatHeadlessProvider config={config}>
      <ChatPanel />
    </ChatHeadlessProvider>
  );
}

export default App;

Styling

default styling

Tailwind

The component library utilizes Tailwind styling by default. Please make sure that your application's tailwind configuration includes the following:

• The content field should contain the path to the location of the @yext/chat-ui-react library (e.g., node_modules/@yext/chat-ui-react/lib/**/*.{js,jsx})
• The default theme should be extended with the custom styling used by the components specified here.

CSS bundle

For projects that do not use Tailwind, a css bundle is exported as part of this package. To use it, you can import the file @yext/chat-ui-react/bundle.css into your normal CSS flow.

Example for Yext Pages:

/* index.css */
@import "@yext/chat-ui-react/bundle.css";

The CSS bundle is scoped to the target class .yext-chat, which is automatically included as a wrapper div in both ChatPanel and ChatPopUp.

custom styling

Projects that use Tailwind may pass Tailwind classnames into the Chat components using the customCssClasses prop:

const customCssClasses: ChatPanelCssClasses = {
  container: "bg-blue-300"
}
<ChatPanel customCssClasses={customCssClasses}>

Projects that don't use Tailwind may target the default styleless classnames added into the html elements within the Chat components and add their own css styling:

.yext-chat-panel__container {
  background-color: blue;
}

Alternatively, user may provide their own classnames using the customCssClasses prop and target that instead