How to Build an Ionic Chat App with React and Stream

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to build a lightweight Ionic chat application that is powered by React and Stream Chat.

There are a few requirements for this, primarily the version of Node.js (I prefer to use nvm for Node version management), XCode for iOS if you’re on macOS or Android Studio if you’re on macOS or Windows and want to build against Android, and yarn for dependency management.

Let’s code!

1. Install Ionic

To get started with Ionic, download the Ionic CLI using npm:

$ yarn global add ionic

Once installed, login to Ionic from the command line using your new CLI:

$ ionic login

For now, that’s all that we have to do. We’re going to be using Create React App (next step) to continue our installation.

2. Install Create React App and Dependencies

Similar to how we installed Ionic, let’s go ahead and install Create React App (CRA) globally using npm:

$ yarn global add create-react-app

Next, create a new directory. I’m going to be working in my ~/Code directory, but you’re free to use a directory of your choosing:

$ cd ~/Code

Now, install React using CRA (ionic-chat is the name of the directory that will be generated — this is also optional as you can name it whatever you’d like):

$ npx create-react-app ionic-chat

Move into the ionic-chat directory and we’ll start installing the necessary dependencies.

$ yarn add stream-chat stream-chat-react axios react-router react-router-dom @ionic/react

With our dependencies installed, let’s go ahead and move on to the next step of the setup.

3. Setup the API with Heroku

The API, although small, plays an important role in chat. The API accepts user credentials from the login screen and generates a JWT for use within that. It also adds the user to the channel.

To spin up the API, I’ve included a simple one-click Heroku button. This will generate a new application on Heroku and then create a Stream Chat trial for you to use. After clicking the Heroku button, you will be prompted to add an application name — make this unique. Then click “Deploy” to kick off the Heroku deploy process.

Heroku Dashboard

Once installed, get the environment variables from Heroku (they were generated by the Heroku creation) and drop them in your .env file in your React app. The environment variables can be found under the “Settings” section of your Heroku dashboard as shown in this blog post by Heroku. Note that there is only one environment variable called “STREAM_URL”. The key and secret are delimited by a “:” with the first being the key and the second being the secret.

Heroku — Environment Variables

Alternatively, if you would like to skip Heroku, you can clone this GitHub repo and run the API with the yarn start command — be sure to run yarn install prior to starting and also be sure to fill out your .env with credentials found on the Stream dashboard (you will need to enable a free chat trial).

4. Install the iOS Simulator

If you have XCode installed, you’re pretty much all set. If not, and you want to download XCode, you can do so here. XCode comes bundled with an iOS Simulator by default.

Should you not wish to install XCode, you can optionally install this npm package which will install a standalone iOS simulator for you.

$ yarn global add ios-sim

The full instructions on how to use it are located here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ios-sim

5. Install Android Studio (Optional)

Running on iOS with macOS seems to be the fastest way to test your code; however, if you’re on Windows or would simply like to use Android, I’ll cover that below.

Head over to the Android Studio download page and select your download of choice. Android Studio is available for iOS, Windows, and macOS. It’s a large file so the download may take a good amount of time.

Once downloaded, follow the installation instructions and open Android Studio. We’re going to download the necessary SDKs and create an Android Virtual Device (AVD).

With Android Studio open, click on “Configure” and then click “SDK Manager”.

Android Studio — Configure

With the SDK Manager open, select “Android 9.0 (Pie)” and then click “Apply”.

Android Studio — Android 9.0 (Pie)

Your download will begin. Once complete, go back to the main screen and click the “Configure” button, followed by “AVD Manager”. On the AVD Manager screen, you will want to click “+ Create Virtual Device”.

Select the “Pixel 3 XL” device, then click “Next”. Select “Pie (28)” for your API level followed by the “Next” button.

Android Studio — OS Download

Finally, click “Finish” and your AVD will be provisioned. Once done, you can safely exit out of the AVD screen and you will see your newly created AVD in the AVD manager.

AVD Manager

If you click on the green play button, your AVD will launch!

Android Pie Emulator

Congratulations! You’ve successfully generated an AVD within Android Studio! We’re not going to use it just yet, but the AVD will come in handy when testing later on in this tutorial.

6. Create Files

We have everything set up, now it’s time to add the necessary files to make our code work! We’ll need to create a handful of files, so pay close attention:

1. In the root of your directory, create ionic.config.json with the following contents:

{
  "name": "Ionic Chat",
  "type": "custom",
  "integrations": {}
}

ionic.config.json

2. In public/index.html, swap out the current HTML for the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico" />
    <meta
      name="viewport"
      content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0,
    minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover user-scalable=no"
    />

    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
    <meta
      name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style"
      content="black-translucent"
    />
    <meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Ionic Chat" />

    <link rel="manifest" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/manifest.json" />

    <title>Ionic Chat</title>
  </head>
  <body ontouchstart="">
    <noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
    <div id="root"></div>
  </body>
</html>

public/index.html

3. Move into the src/ directory, we’re going to create and modify a few files:

In app.css, swap out all of the existing CSS for this:

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans");

html,
body {
  background: #ffffff;
  padding: env(safe-area-inset-top) env(safe-area-inset-right)
    env(safe-area-inset-bottom) env(safe-area-inset-left);
  font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;
}

.no-scroll .scroll-content {
  overflow: hidden;
}

::placeholder {
  color: #3f3844;
}

.login-root {
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 25%;
}

.login-card > h4 {
  margin-bottom: 22px;
}

.login-card > input {
  padding: 4px 6px;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  border: 1px solid #d3d3d3;
  background: hsla(0, 0%, 100%, 0.2);
  border-radius: 4px !important;
  font-size: 16px;
  color: #24282e;
  -webkit-box-shadow: none;
  box-shadow: none;
  outline: 0;
  padding: 0 16px 1px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  height: 50px;
  width: 300px;
}

.login-card button {
  font-size: 16px;
  background-color: #3880ff;
  border-radius: 4px;
  line-height: 1.4em;
  padding: 14px 33px 14px;
  margin-right: 10px;
  border: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
  color: #ffffff;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08), 0 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12);
  border-radius: 6px;
  text-transform: none;
  outline: none;
}

.str-chat__loading-indicator {
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 15%;
}

.str-chat-channel {
  background-color: #ffffff !important;
}

.str-chat__header-livestream {
  box-shadow: none !important;
  background: transparent;
}

.str-chat__square-button {
  display: none !important;
}

.str-chat__input {
  box-shadow: none !important;
}

.rta__textarea {
  padding: 4px 6px;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  border: 1px solid #d3d3d3 !important;
  background: hsla(0, 0%, 100%, 0.2);
  border-radius: 4px !important;
  font-size: 14px !important;
  color: #24282e !important;
  -webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
  -webkit-appearance: none !important;
  box-shadow: none !important;
  outline: none !important;
  padding: 0 16px 1px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  height: 50px;
}

.str-chat__textarea {
  height: 45px !important;
}

.str-chat__input-footer--count {
  margin-top: 4px;
  margin-left: 4px;
}

.footer {
  margin-bottom: 50px;
}

App.css

In App.js, swap out the existing code for this JavaScript (this logic will take care of routing between files):

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch } from "react-router-dom";

import Chat from "./Chat";
import Login from "./Login";

import UnauthedRoute from "./UnauthedRoute";
import AuthedRoute from "./AuthedRoute";

const App = () => (
  <Router>
    <Switch>
      <UnauthedRoute path="/auth/login" component={Login} />
      <AuthedRoute path="/" component={Chat} />
    </Switch>
  </Router>
);

export default App;

App.js

Create a file called AuthedRoute.js and drop the contents below into the file:

import React from "react";
import { Redirect, Route } from "react-router-dom";

const AuthedRoute = ({ component: Component, loading, ...rest }) => {
  const isAuthed = Boolean(localStorage.getItem("token"));
  return (
    <Route
      {...rest}
      render={props =>
        loading ? (
          <p>Loading...</p>
        ) : isAuthed ? (
          <Component history={props.history} {...rest} />
        ) : (
          <Redirect
            to={{
              pathname: "/auth/login",
              state: { next: props.location }
            }}
          />
        )
      }
    />
  );
};

export default AuthedRoute;

AuthedRoute.js

Create a file named Chat.js and use the following code (this is all of the logic that powers chat):

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { IonApp, IonContent } from "@ionic/react";
import {
  Chat,
  Channel,
  ChannelHeader,
  Thread,
  Window,
  MessageList,
  MessageInput
} from "stream-chat-react";
import { StreamChat } from "stream-chat";

import "./App.css";
import "@ionic/core/css/core.css";
import "@ionic/core/css/ionic.bundle.css";
import "stream-chat-react/dist/css/index.css";
import "stream-chat-react/dist/css/index.css";

class App extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    const { id, name, email, image } = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("user"));

    this.client = new StreamChat(localStorage.getItem("apiKey"));
    this.client.setUser(
      {
        id,
        name,
        email,
        image
      },
      localStorage.getItem("token")
    );

    this.channel = this.client.channel("messaging", "ionic-chat", {
      image: "https://i.imgur.com/gwaMDJZ.png",
      name: "Ionic Chat"
    });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <IonApp style={{ paddingTop: "2px" }}>
        <IonContent>
          <Chat client={this.client} theme={"messaging light"}>
            <Channel channel={this.channel}>
              <Window>
                <ChannelHeader />
                <MessageList />
                <div className="footer">
                  <MessageInput />
                </div>
              </Window>
              <Thread />
            </Channel>
          </Chat>
        </IonContent>
      </IonApp>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

Chat.js

Next, create a file called Login.js and use the following code (this will add auth to your app):

import React, { Component } from "react";
import axios from "axios";

import "./App.css";

class Login extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      loading: false,
      name: "",
      email: ""
    };

    this.initStream = this.initStream.bind(this);
  }

  async initStream() {
    await this.setState({
      loading: true
    });

    const auth = await axios.post(process.env.REACT_APP_TOKEN_ENDPOINT, {
      name: this.state.name,
      email: this.state.email
    });

    localStorage.setItem("user", JSON.stringify(auth.data.user));
    localStorage.setItem("token", auth.data.token);
    localStorage.setItem("apiKey", auth.data.apiKey);

    await this.setState({
      loading: false
    });

    this.props.history.push("/");
  }

  handleChange = e => {
    this.setState({
      [e.target.name]: e.target.value
    });
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <div className="login-root">
        <div className="login-card">
          <h4>Ionic Chat</h4>
          <input
            type="text"
            placeholder="Name"
            name="name"
            onChange={e => this.handleChange(e)}
          />
          <br />
          <input
            type="email"
            placeholder="Email"
            name="email"
            onChange={e => this.handleChange(e)}
          />
          <br />
          <button onClick={this.initStream}>Submit</button>
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default Login;

Login.js

Now, create a file called UnauthedRoute.js to accommodate for users who enter without being authenticated:

import React from "react";
import { Redirect, Route } from "react-router-dom";

const UnauthedRoute = ({ component: Component, loading, ...rest }) => {
  const isAuthed = Boolean(localStorage.getItem("token"));
  return (
    <Route
      {...rest}
      render={props =>
        loading ? (
          <p>Loading...</p>
        ) : !isAuthed ? (
          <Component history={props.history} {...rest} />
        ) : (
          <Redirect
            to={{
              pathname: "/"
            }}
          />
        )
      }
    />
  );
};

export default UnauthedRoute;

UnauthedRoute.js

Create a file called withSession.js:

import React from "react";
import { withRouter } from "react-router";

export default (Component, unAuthed = false) => {
  const WithSession = ({ user = {}, streamToken, ...props }) =>
    user.id || unAuthed ? (
      <Component
        userId={user.id}
        user={user}
        session={window.streamSession}
        {...props}
      />
    ) : (
      <Component {...props} />
    );

  return withRouter(WithSession);
};

withSession.js

4. Install the Ionic build scripts in your package.json file:

"scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "ionic:build": "react-scripts build",
    "ionic:serve": "react-scripts start"
}

package.json

Capacitor is an open-source framework provided by Ionic that helps you build progressive native web apps, mobile and desktops apps. It’s optimized for Ionic apps; however, it can be used with just about any framework.

We’ll be using Capacitor to lift and prepare our builds for iOS and Android. First things first though, let’s get Capacitor installed!

$ ionic capacitor add ios

Then, start the React app with the following command from your root directory:

$ yarn start

Open on iOS:

$ ionic capacitor open ios

Capacitor — iOS

Or, open on Android:

$ ionic capacitor open android

Capacitor — Android

Because I’m running macOS, I’m going to be using the iOS simulator. After running ionic capacitor open ios, XCode will launch. You will want to wait about a minute for it to index the project and then you can press the run button.

XCode

Your iOS simulator should boot up with the application installed and you should see a login screen similar to this:

iOS — Login

Go ahead and login with your name and email address. Don’t worry, your information is only stored in local storage and is not persisted to a third party platform of any kind. Once the chat window is loaded, you’ll be able to chat away!

iOS — Chat

What’s Next?

I would encourage you to continue developing against the codebase that you’ve created. If you have run into any issues, you can always clone the repo from GitHub for a fresh start.

In terms of deploying the application to a standalone device such as iOS or Android, Ionic has a great set of tutorials on how to do so. Both tutorials for iOS and Android publication can be found in the Ionic docs.

Want to know more about Stream Chat? Have a look at our interactive API tour that will walk you through the various steps of creating chat from scratch with Stream. We also have amazing API docs and a beautiful UI Kit that will allow you to build any type of chat.

Happy coding! Thank you for reading !

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How native is React Native? | React Native vs Native App Development

If you are undertaking a mobile app development for your start-up or enterprise, you are likely wondering whether to use React Native. As a popular development framework, React Native helps you to develop near-native mobile apps. However, you are probably also wondering how close you can get to a native app by using React Native. How native is React Native?

In the article, we discuss the similarities between native mobile development and development using React Native. We also touch upon where they differ and how to bridge the gaps. Read on.

A brief introduction to React Native

Let’s briefly set the context first. We will briefly touch upon what React Native is and how it differs from earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is a popular JavaScript framework that Facebook has created. You can use this open-source framework to code natively rendering Android and iOS mobile apps. You can use it to develop web apps too.

Facebook has developed React Native based on React, its JavaScript library. The first release of React Native came in March 2015. At the time of writing this article, the latest stable release of React Native is 0.62.0, and it was released in March 2020.

Although relatively new, React Native has acquired a high degree of popularity. The “Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019” report identifies it as the 8th most loved framework. Facebook, Walmart, and Bloomberg are some of the top companies that use React Native.

The popularity of React Native comes from its advantages. Some of its advantages are as follows:

• Performance: It delivers optimal performance.
• Cross-platform development: You can develop both Android and iOS apps with it. The reuse of code expedites development and reduces costs.
• UI design: React Native enables you to design simple and responsive UI for your mobile app.
• 3rd party plugins: This framework supports 3rd party plugins.
• Developer community: A vibrant community of developers support React Native.

Why React Native is fundamentally different from earlier hybrid frameworks

Are you wondering whether React Native is just another of those hybrid frameworks like Ionic or Cordova? It’s not! React Native is fundamentally different from these earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is very close to native. Consider the following aspects as described on the React Native website:

• Access to many native platforms features: The primitives of React Native render to native platform UI. This means that your React Native app will use many native platform APIs as native apps would do.
• Near-native user experience: React Native provides several native components, and these are platform agnostic.
• The ease of accessing native APIs: React Native uses a declarative UI paradigm. This enables React Native to interact easily with native platform APIs since React Native wraps existing native code.

Due to these factors, React Native offers many more advantages compared to those earlier hybrid frameworks. We now review them.

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Drive Engagement and Interaction Voluntarily via Team Collaboration Chat Apps

Emails are almost extinct. The need to stay glued to your office desk is no more a necessity to stay connected with teams. Chat applications are here and are changing the way teams collaborate and communicate with each other with increased mobility.

Chats have gone a long way from being reserved only for socializing purposes to hosting important team discussions and meetings where ideas are born and rolled out. Team chat apps built for iOS and Android devices are the new collaborative tools that business people thrive on.

Chat apps solutions are seeing technical teams in technology companies, be it startups or an enterprise-grade companies as early adopters as they have started realizing the benefits of flexible and frictionless communication that these chat solutions power.

Advantages that Pose Real-time Instant Messaging Apps as Convenient Alternatives for Group or Team Communication Over Conventional emailing Systems

1. Ad-hoc Conversations
Apart from bringing employees together chat apps pave way for grouping teams for ad-hoc conversations where technical people can discuss over tasks, brainstorm and come up with ideas.

2. Epicenter of Tasks
Through an array of integrations that chat applications offer, teams, especially those involved in product development, can centralize their accounts on other collaborative platforms like GitHub, Jira into the chat application itself creating an ecosystem that caters to all collaboration purposes.

3. Record Keeping and Easy Search
Key developments that happen over a verbal discussion need to be noted down else chances are more likely for losing a crucial breakthrough achieved over a brainstorming session. Team collaboration chat apps record every improvement and contents that dates back to any time can be fully searched.

4. Switch Over Devices Based on Convenience
Multi device compatibility ensures that your employees are connected with teams no matter what devices they are using. If on-the-go connectivity is your preference, get things done on smartphone. If convenience matters the most, switch over to your desktop and continue from where you left.

5. Multiple Communication Medium
Text messages, voice calls, video calls, VOIP calls, direct messages, group chats on iOS and Android extend the modes and medium through which you can get to communicate with your peers, teams and entire organization for that matter.

6. Everything Else that Count
Adding to these, features like file sharing (multiple file types), video conferencing, opinion generation through polls, task delegation, followups, update, personalized notification settings, reminders, to-do list creation and much more can be done through real-time team chat applications.

However, the limitations of team collaboration chat apps end here only if you think so. With every other team, apart from development teams, like those that operational level, management level, marketing level etc can also get to reap the benefits of chat apps. Read on to know the

Instances Which Chat Apps Prove Useful for All Teams in an Organization

Why restrict the benefit of real-time instant messaging chat app to only technology teams into development and designing. Every other team in your office or organization can get a fair share of its advantages.

Here are some of the instances where chat apps can be useful for other teams.
Human Resource team can build employee engagement programs. HRs can get fast response from employees, build a powerful relationship with them, conduct opinion poll for decision making. The hardly-used suggestion box in office premises can be replaced by a chat app for a more effective and instant feedback.

An organization’s system administration team can stay connected with employees on the go and be there on time to resolve issues. Moreover, notifications on breakdowns and other technical issues can help in saving the downtime. Alerts and reminders on instant messaging applications can contribute towards proactive care.

For marketing professionals and sales executives, chat apps on multiple platforms like iOS, Android can reduce series of mail threads into chat logs that are easily searchable. Live video calls and voice calls can help them build better client relationship and both pre and post sales support can get more livelier and personalized with chat apps.

At operational level, chat apps can connect an organization’s representative with many third party vendors to keep up on timely delivery, maintenance, bill payments and more.

Group or Team collaboration applications are the new age communication tools that can contribute for successful communication between employees of an organization in multiple angles. From initiating an idea to getting works done, real time chat apps have started helping organization at many instances which are tough to handle when done conventionally.

If you are into an organization but still have not got a chat app on board, it is high time that your build a chat app on iOS and Android.

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9. MindGrub
MindGrub is a leading React Native Mobile App Development Company in the USA. Along with React Native, the company also works on other emerging technologies like robotics, augmented & virtual reality. The Company has excellent strength and the best developers team for any type of React Native mobile apps. They offer versatile React Native App development technology solutions to their clients.
Website: https://www.mindgrub.com/

10. Prismetric
Prismetric is the premium React Native Mobile App Development Company in the USA. They provide fast React Native Development Services and their React Native App Developers have a high capability of serving projects on various platforms. They focus on developing customized solutions for specific business requirements. Being a popular name in the React Native development market, Prismetric has accumulated a specialty in offering these services.
Website: https://www.prismetric.com/

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How long does it take to develop/build an app?

With more of us using smartphones, the popularity of mobile applications has exploded. In the digital era, the number of people looking for products and services online is growing rapidly. Smartphone owners look for mobile applications that give them quick access to companies’ products and services. As a result, mobile apps provide customers with a lot of benefits in just one device.

Likewise, companies use mobile apps to increase customer loyalty and improve their services. Mobile Developers are in high demand as companies use apps not only to create brand awareness but also to gather information. For that reason, mobile apps are used as tools to collect valuable data from customers to help companies improve their offer.

There are many types of mobile applications, each with its own advantages. For example, native apps perform better, while web apps don’t need to be customized for the platform or operating system (OS). Likewise, hybrid apps provide users with comfortable user experience. However, you may be wondering how long it takes to develop an app.

To give you an idea of how long the app development process takes, here’s a short guide.

App Idea & Research

_Average time spent: two to five weeks _

This is the initial stage and a crucial step in setting the project in the right direction. In this stage, you brainstorm ideas and select the best one. Apart from that, you’ll need to do some research to see if your idea is viable. Remember that coming up with an idea is easy; the hard part is to make it a reality.

All your ideas may seem viable, but you still have to run some tests to keep it as real as possible. For that reason, when Web Developers are building a web app, they analyze the available ideas to see which one is the best match for the targeted audience.

Targeting the right audience is crucial when you are developing an app. It saves time when shaping the app in the right direction as you have a clear set of objectives. Likewise, analyzing how the app affects the market is essential. During the research process, App Developers must gather information about potential competitors and threats. This helps the app owners develop strategies to tackle difficulties that come up after the launch.

The research process can take several weeks, but it determines how successful your app can be. For that reason, you must take your time to know all the weaknesses and strengths of the competitors, possible app strategies, and targeted audience.

The outcomes of this stage are app prototypes and the minimum feasible product.

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