Live Demo

https://rs-chat-demo.herokuapp.com

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Getting started

Get a copy of the plugin

You can install it through npm.

$ npm install rs-chat

Setup for nodejs

Open index.js file and put the below code and start nodejs server

var app = require('http')
var chat = require('rs-chat')(app);

chat.init({
  host     : 'localhost', // DB host
  user     : 'user', // DB User
  password : 'password', // DB Password
  database : 'database', // DB Name
  assets   : 'assets' // assets path
});

Create table

CREATE TABLE `messages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `userId` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `toId` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `msg` mediumtext COLLATE utf8mb4_bin NOT NULL,
  `type` int(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' COMMENT '0 / null = text, 1 = image, 2=video',
  `created_at` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `read_at` datetime DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_bin;

Load the required files

Inside the page's head tag include the CSS file.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/rs-chat.min.css">

In the page's footer, just before </body>, include the required JavaScript files.

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/socket.io/2.2.0/socket.io.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/rs-chat.min.js"></script>

Instantiate the chat plugin

<script type="text/javascript">
  RSChat.init({
    socketUrl: 'http://localhost:8080/' // server url,
    userId: '1', // logged in user id
    name: 'ravi shukla', // logged in user name
  });
</script>

Call the below function to open chat box

RSChat.start('user_id', 'username')

Global Settings

S.No|Options|Type|Purpuse ---|---|---|--- 1|emoji(optional)|Bool|Enable emoji feature or not 3|iconSize(optional)|Integer|Emoji size 2|media(optional)|Bool|Enable / Disable media 4|assetPath|String|Asset path for the media 6|supportedFile(optional)|Array|Supported media file 5|invalidFileMessage(optional)|String|Message on wrong media file 7|perPage(optional)|Integer|Pagination for the chat list 8|marginRight(optional)|Integer|Margin for each chat window 9|beforeDialogOpen(optional)|Promise|Callback before chat box open 10|maxFileSize(optional)|Integer|Max file size to upload default 1MB 11|maxFileSizeError(optional)|String|Error message on big media file

Support

If you found a bug please submit it in the Issues.

If you need help with implementing the chat in your project, You can mail me at [email protected]

Suggestion

If you have any suggestion, You can write mail to me at [email protected]