rn-firebase-chat

RN Firebase Chat

Installation

npm install rn-firebase-chat

Installation

• Using npm:

npm install rn-firebase-chat @react-native-firebase/app @react-native-firebase/firestore @react-native-firebase/storage randomcolor react-native-aes-crypto react-native-gifted-chat --save

• Using Yarn:

yarn add rn-firebase-chat @react-native-firebase/app @react-native-firebase/firestore @react-native-firebase/storage randomcolor react-native-aes-crypto react-native-gifted-chat

Usage

• Wrap your app with ChatProvider

import { ChatProvider } from 'rn-firebase-chat';

const userInfo = {
  id: 'abc123',
  name: 'John Doe',
  avatar: 'https://example.com/avatar.jpg',
};

function App() {
  return (
    <ChatProvider userInfo={userInfo}>
      <AppNavigation />
    </ChatProvider>
  );
}

• Setup navigation for ListConversationScreen and ChatScreen

export const ChatNavigator = () => (
  <Stack.Navigator>
    <Stack.Screen name={RouteKey.ListChatScreen} component={ListChatScreen} />
    <Stack.Screen name={RouteKey.ChatScreen} component={ChatScreen} />
  </Stack.Navigator>
);

import React, { useCallback } from 'react';
import { ListConversationScreen } from 'rn-firebase-chat';
import { navigate } from '../../navigation/NavigationService';
import RouteKey from '../../navigation/RouteKey';

export const ListChatScreen: React.FC = () => {
  const handleItemPress = useCallback((data) => {
    navigate(RouteKey.ChatScreen, data);
  }, []);

  return <ListConversationScreen onPress={handleItemPress} />;
};

import React from 'react';
import { ChatScreen as BaseChatScreen } from 'rn-firebase-chat';

const partnerInfo = {
  id: 'ayz123',
  name: 'Tony',
  avatar: 'https://example.com/tony.jpg',
};

export const ChatScreen: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <BaseChatScreen memberIds={[partnerInfo.id]} partners={[partnerInfo]} />
  );
};

Addons

Additional features for chat are:

Image/Video Picker and Camera

This feature will require additional libraries:

• Using npm:

npm install react-native-fast-image react-native-video react-native-vision-camera uuid react-native-image-picker --save

• Using Yarn:

yarn add react-native-fast-image react-native-video react-native-vision-camera uuid react-native-image-picker

Then using our Addons component in ChatScreen

import React from 'react'
import {ChatScreen as BaseChatScreen} from 'rn-firebase-chat'
import {CameraView, useCamera} from 'rn-firebase-chat/src/addons/camera'

...

export const ChatScreen: React.FC = () => {
  const {onPressCamera, onPressGallery} = useCamera()
  return (
    <BaseChatScreen
      memberIds={[partnerInfo.id]}
      partners={[partnerInfo]}
      inputToolbarProps={{
        hasCamera: true,
        hasGallery: true,
        onPressCamera,
        onPressGallery,
      }}
    >
    {({onSend}) => (<CameraView onSend={onSend} /> )}
    </BaseChatScreen>
  )
}

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT

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