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TalkJS JavaScript SDK
This package lets you include TalkJS JS SDK snippet as an npm package.
Please note this package is for the client-side SDK and is intended for browser environments.
We have seporate packages available if you're looking to integrate TalkJS with React Native, and a package with support for Expo. @talkjs/react-native
, @talkjs/@expo
What is TalkJS?
TalkJS is a developer friendly chat API with a pre-built UI that is highly customisable. You can build a chat feature in minutes instead of months.
With TalkJS, you can create chat features that boost user engagement, retention, and conversion rate.
Don't hesitate to let us know if you have any questions about TalkJS.
Getting Started
Use one of the following ways to import the library:
ES6 / TypeScript:
import Talk from "talkjs";
CommonJS:
const Talk = require("talkjs");
Then, follow the guide on our documentation to start using TalkJS in your projects.
Goals
This NPM package has two goals:
- Make it easier to inject the TalkJS snippet for developers who use front-end build chains such as Webpack or Parcel
- Provide TypeScript type definitions for the entire SDK, for an easier development experience in editors such as Atom and VS Code. Some editors (eg VS Code) will use these for autocompletion if your application is not written in TypeScript:
Note that even if you use this package, the core TalkJS library is loaded on-the-fly from our CDN. It simply injects a small code snippet which does that asynchronously, without delaying the rest of your application.
Examples, guides & tutorials
You can check out usage examples for this package and TalkJS in general, check out our examples repository. Our resources section on the site covers a wide array of tutorials and Frequently asked Questions.
There are multiple quickstart guides available:
Usage from Node.js
This package is currently frontend only. You can import this package in Node.js, but it will only work from code that is called in a browser. If you use a framework that runs the same code on Node.js and in the browser (eg Next.js), then make sure you only call TalkJS functions inside the browser. See our Next.js example for more info.
On forward compatibility
We take API compatibility extremely seriously. We spend a lot of effort to ensure that customer code that used to work, keeps working, even when we iterate on the SDK design. We may at times deprecate methods or fields, but we will not remove them. If something that used to work stops working, then that's a bug. Please report it and we'll fix it asap.
A note for TypeScript users
We do not consider a change in the type definitions a breaking change that warrants a major version release.
None of this should ever affect you unless you manually update the NPM package to a newer version using a command like npm install --save talkjs@latest
at a later time. And even then, nothing will break at runtime because we provide full forward compatibility of the JavaScript API.
In other words, code like the following should always keep working and compiling, even if you update this package:
import Talk from "talkjs";
const session = new Talk.Session(..);
const inbox = session.createInbox(..);
But code using TypeScript types might cause compile errors when you update the package to a later version, because we may rename the Talk.Inbox
type:
import Talk from "talkjs";
function createInbox(): Talk.Inbox { // <-- this line is the culprit
const session = new Talk.Session(..);
return session.createInbox(..);
}
Similarly, we may at any time remove deprecated methods, fields, classes and interfaces from the TypeScript definitions (but not from the JavaScript SDK).
Changelog
Note: These are only the changes that have an effect on the JS level. TalkJS gets many improvements and fixes all the time. Consider subscribing to our changelog if you want to stay updated.
0.31.0
- Added MessageRef and ConversationRef.message
- Added MessageSnapshot.referencedMessage (
MessageSnapshot.referencedMessage: ReferencedMessageSnapshot
) - Added ReferencedMessageSnapshot
- Added MessageSnapshot.content
- Added ConversationRef.send
- Added ConversationRef.subscribeMessages,
MessageSubscription
, andMessageActiveState
. - Added SendMessageParams and EditMessageParams
0.30.0
0.29.0
0.28.0
- Added ParticipantRef to the Realtime API.
- Added ConversationRef.participant to get a participant ref.
- Added ConversationSnapshot.joinedAt.
0.27.0
- Added ConversationRef.set and ConversationRef.createIfNotExists to the Realtime API.
0.26.0
- Added customEmojis setting to
createChatbox
,createInbox
andcreatePopup
.
0.25.0
- Removed UserData. Everything that previously returned UserData now returns UserSnapshot.
- UserSnapshot.locale and SetUserParams.role are now correctly marked as nullable
0.24.0
- Added support for subscribing to a user, via UserRef.subscribe which returns a UserSubscription
0.23.1
- Fixed
ConversationSnapshot.createdAt
andConversationSnapshot.lastMessageAt
to benumber
instead ofDate
.
0.23.0
- Added ConversationRef to fetch and manipulate data about conversations. Currently the only method available is
get(): ConversationSnapshot
. - Added Session.conversation(id: string): ConversationRef to get a reference to a conversation by id.
0.22.0
- Added UserRef.set and UserRef.createIfNotExists to the Realtime API.
0.21.0
- Added support for JWT-based session authentication, adding SessionOptions.token and SessionOptions.tokenFetcher. See the authentication documentation and advanced authentication documentation for more information about JWT authentication.
- Deprecated SessionOptions.signature. It will continue to be supported indefinitely, but JWT authentication is recommended for new projects.
0.20.0
- Added first aspects of the Realtime API
- Added UserRef to fetch and manipulate data about users
- Added Session.currentUser: UserRef to get a reference to the current user for use in the Realtime API
- Added Session.user(id: string): UserRef to get a reference to an arbitrary user
0.19.0
- Added option
messageId
to Inbox.select
0.18.0
- Deprecated
ConversationSelectedEvent.others
andSelectConversationEvent.others
in favour of.participants
due toothers
having strange behaviour when in a conversation by yourself. - Calling
.select
on a UI now returns a promise that is resolved when the new conversation is selected
0.17.0
- Added the ability to use action buttons and links inside the
ConversationListHeader
andConversationListItem
theme components. As a result,ConversationActionEvent.conversation
can now benull
.
0.16.6
- The InboxOptions.selected property has been deprecated in favour of Inbox.select.
0.16.5
- Added property ConversationData.participants
0.16.4
- Added property Session.unreads.unreadMessageCount.
0.16.3
- Added properties Session.isAlive, Chatbox.isAlive, Inbox.isAlive and Popup.isAlive to check whether the session or widget has been destroyed or not.
- Made the
action
parameter in onCustomConversationAction and onCustomMessageAction optional, so that it can trigger an event for any action.
0.16.2
- Added session.onBrowserPermissionNeeded. This event is triggered when the browser is about to prompt the user for a certain permission. You can use this to show more information to the user before the browser prompt.
- Added session.onBrowserPermissionDenied. This event is triggered when the user or the browser denies a certain permission. You can use this to show an explanation of how to re-enable the permission if they change their mind.
0.16.1
- The
theme
option passed tosession.createChatbox
and other methods to create a widget now optionally lets you pass acustom
property to pass data to theme. Read our documentation on passing data to themes for more info.
0.16.0
- Add ConversationActionEvent interface.
- Add LeaveConversationEvent interface.
- Add NumberPredicate.
- Update onDesktopNotificationClicked method.
0.15.9
- Add onCustomConversationAction method.
0.15.8
- Updated README.md (Forgot to add the changelog entry for 0.15.7)
0.15.7
- Add
lastMessageTs
andsubject
to ConversationPredicate.
0.15.6
- Add UserPresence interface.
- Add
presence
to ChatboxOptions, InboxOptions and PopupOptions.
0.15.5
- Add
sendFile
andsendLocation
methods to Chatbox, Inbox and Popup - Add
MentionsOnly
Notify option to setParticipant.
0.15.4
- Add onKeydown event to Chatbox, Inbox and Popup.
- Rename
KeyupEvent
to KeyEvent (the oldKeyupEvent
remains exported as an alias)
0.15.3
- session.registerDevice and session.unregisterDevice have been deprecated in favour of the new session.setPushRegistration, session.unsetPushRegistration and session.clearPushRegistrations. These newer methods give you more fine-grained control over multiple push registrations for the same user. The old methods will continue to work, but for new projects, we recommend changing to the newer methods.
0.15.2
- The way to attach event handlers has changed. Methods like
on("focus", handler)
to register events on the Chatbox, Popup or Inbox are now deprecated. Instead, we recommend that you use the equivalent methods likeonFocus
instead. The same thing goes for event handlers on Session and Unreads objects. - Similarly the
off
method to remove event listeners has been deprecated too. New event handler methods return a Subscription object, which has anunsubscribe()
method to stop listening for events. - Add onCustomMessageAction event
0.15.1
- Add captureKeyboardEvents option
- Add on("keyup") event
- Add MessageField.getText and MessageField.typeText methods.
0.15.0
- Add Guest access that enables hundreds of users in the chat at the same time.
0.14.5
- Add a messageField.autofocus which lets you disable automatically focusing the message field.
0.14.4
- Added
theme
option to createInbox, createChatbox and createPopup which lets you override which Custom Theme is shown. - Added
session.on("desktopNotificationClicked")
which lets you handle user clicks on browser notifications.
0.14.3
- Added the inbox.on("selectConversation") event, which triggers before a user switches to a different conversation.
- Enabled passing
undefined
andnull
as paremeters to inbox.select, chatbox.select, popup.select and to session.createInbox, session.createChatbox, session.createPopup.
0.14.2
- Fixed getPopups, getInboxes and getChatboxes types.
0.14.1
- Added methods to get UIs, namely getPopups, getInboxes and getChatboxes.
0.14.0
- Added the ability to search within a conversation - available on the Premium plan and above.
- Changed the default for the popup's 'launcher' option to default to 'always' instead of 'close-only'.
- Changed the default for the popup's 'keepOpen' option to default to 'false' instead of 'true'.
0.13.1
- Add option to show/hide the mobile back button for the Inbox UI.
0.13.0
- Add support for real-time message translation.
0.12.0
- Simplify "no chats" inbox layout; take background and borders from theme
.panel
setting.
0.11.0
- Add MessageField.setVisible method and a messageField.visible setting to
createInbox
and friends.
0.10.3
- Add Message Field settings to
createInbox
and friends.
0.10.2
- Make the SDK compatible with typescript 2.3 and older browsers.
0.10.1
- Fix circular type reference.
0.10.0
- Fix bug that would not let TypeScript users do
import Talk from "talkjs"
in some situations. Note that before this change, in some setups you could actually doimport * as Talk
to get around this. That stops working now.
0.9.1
- Added
Session#destroy
that destroys the current connection to the TalkJS server.
0.9.0
- Removed exception when
talkjs
is required or imported in non-browser environments (eg Node.js). Using the package outside the browser still throws an exception, but just importing it doesn't anymore.
0.8.1
- Exposed
Talk.Error
. - Added
MessageFilter
. - Added missing
custom
field to theMessage
interface. - Added the ability to override message contents and custom field via the JSSDK.
0.8.0
- Added explicit support for ESNext modules, to make this package work with eg Rollup.
- Typings now expose the
custom
field on theMessage
interface - Fixed TypeScript exports: types were exported as separate named exports, even though the TalkJS SDK actually default-exports a single Talk object. To update existing an TypeScript codebase to use the new types, change all occurrences of
import * as Talk from "talkjs"
toimport Talk from "talkjs"
. If you use CommonJS (require
) then no changes are needed.
0.7.0
- Add conversation welcome messages, which are rendered similar to system messages
- Add
chatBox.messageField.setText(...)
- Rename
User.configuration
toUser.role
(with full backward compatibility, i.e.configuration
is now a deprecated alias forrole
.
0.6.1
- Add support for Inbox feed filters.
0.6.0
- Converted some classes to interfaces (eg
Inbox
is now an interface). - Exported all interfaces that the SDK exposes. For example,
Session.getOrCreateConversation
returns aConversationBuilder
interface, which you can now use in TypeScript code likefunction updateConversation(conversation: Talk.ConversationBuilder) {..}
.
0.5.0
- Exported core interfaces in the TypeScript type definitions: Chatbox, Conversation, ConversationBuilder, Inbox, Popup.
- Began tracking a changelog :-)