Beautiful Vue Chat Component

vue-beautiful-chat

vue-beautiful-chat provides an intercom-like chat window that can be included easily in any project for free. It provides no messaging facilities, only the view component.

vue-beautiful-chat is porting to vue of react-beautiful-chat (which you can find here)

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Features

• Customizeable
• Backend agnostic
• Free

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Example
• Components

Installation

$ yarn add vue-beautiful-chat

Example

import Chat from 'vue-beautiful-chat'
Vue.use(Chat)

<template>
  <div>
    <beautiful-chat
      :participants="participants"
      :titleImageUrl="titleImageUrl"
      :onMessageWasSent="onMessageWasSent"
      :messageList="messageList"
      :newMessagesCount="newMessagesCount"
      :isOpen="isChatOpen"
      :close="closeChat"
      :icons="icons"
      :open="openChat"
      :showEmoji="true"
      :showFile="true"
      :showEdition="true"
      :showDeletion="true"
      :deletionConfirmation="true"
      :showTypingIndicator="showTypingIndicator"
      :showLauncher="true"
      :showCloseButton="true"
      :colors="colors"
      :alwaysScrollToBottom="alwaysScrollToBottom"
      :disableUserListToggle="false"
      :messageStyling="messageStyling"
      @onType="handleOnType"
      @edit="editMessage" />
  </div>
</template>

export default {
  name: 'app',
  data() {
    return {
      participants: [
        {
          id: 'user1',
          name: 'Matteo',
          imageUrl: 'https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/1915989?s=230&v=4'
        },
        {
          id: 'user2',
          name: 'Support',
          imageUrl: 'https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/37018832?s=200&v=4'
        }
      ], // the list of all the participant of the conversation. `name` is the user name, `id` is used to establish the author of a message, `imageUrl` is supposed to be the user avatar.
      titleImageUrl: 'https://a.slack-edge.com/66f9/img/avatars-teams/ava_0001-34.png',
      messageList: [
          { type: 'text', author: `me`, data: { text: `Say yes!` } },
          { type: 'text', author: `user1`, data: { text: `No.` } }
      ], // the list of the messages to show, can be paginated and adjusted dynamically
      newMessagesCount: 0,
      isChatOpen: false, // to determine whether the chat window should be open or closed
      showTypingIndicator: '', // when set to a value matching the participant.id it shows the typing indicator for the specific user
      colors: {
        header: {
          bg: '#4e8cff',
          text: '#ffffff'
        },
        launcher: {
          bg: '#4e8cff'
        },
        messageList: {
          bg: '#ffffff'
        },
        sentMessage: {
          bg: '#4e8cff',
          text: '#ffffff'
        },
        receivedMessage: {
          bg: '#eaeaea',
          text: '#222222'
        },
        userInput: {
          bg: '#f4f7f9',
          text: '#565867'
        }
      }, // specifies the color scheme for the component
      alwaysScrollToBottom: false, // when set to true always scrolls the chat to the bottom when new events are in (new message, user starts typing...)
      messageStyling: true // enables *bold* /emph/ _underline_ and such (more info at github.com/mattezza/msgdown)
    }
  },
  methods: {
    sendMessage (text) {
      if (text.length > 0) {
        this.newMessagesCount = this.isChatOpen ? this.newMessagesCount : this.newMessagesCount + 1
        this.onMessageWasSent({ author: 'support', type: 'text', data: { text } })
      }
    },
    onMessageWasSent (message) {
      // called when the user sends a message
      this.messageList = [ ...this.messageList, message ]
    },
    openChat () {
      // called when the user clicks on the fab button to open the chat
      this.isChatOpen = true
      this.newMessagesCount = 0
    },
    closeChat () {
      // called when the user clicks on the botton to close the chat
      this.isChatOpen = false
    },
    handleScrollToTop () {
      // called when the user scrolls message list to top
      // leverage pagination for loading another page of messages
    },
    handleOnType () {
      console.log('Emit typing event')
    },
    editMessage(message){
      const m = this.messageList.find(m=>m.id === message.id);
      m.isEdited = true;
      m.data.text = message.data.text;
    }
  }
}

For more detailed examples see the demo folder.

Components

Launcher

Launcher is the only component needed to use vue-beautiful-chat. It will react dynamically to changes in messages. All new messages must be added via a change in props as shown in the example.

Props

Events

Slots

header

Replacing default header.

<template v-slot:header>
  🤔 Good chat between {{participants.map(m=>m.name).join(' & ')}}
</template>

user-avatar

Replacing user avatar. Params: message, user

<template v-slot:user-avatar="{ message, user }">
  <div style="border-radius:50%; color: pink; font-size: 15px; line-height:25px; text-align:center;background: tomato; width: 25px !important; height: 25px !important; min-width: 30px;min-height: 30px;margin: 5px; font-weight:bold" v-if="message.type === 'text' && user && user.name">
    {{user.name.toUpperCase()[0]}}
  </div>
</template>

text-message-body

Change markdown for text message. Params: message

<template v-slot:text-message-body="{ message }">
  <small style="background:red" v-if="message.meta">
    {{message.meta}}
  </small>
  {{message.text}}
</template>

system-message-body

Change markdown for system message. Params: message

<template v-slot:system-message-body="{ message }">
  [System]: {{message.text}}
</template>

Message Objects

Message objects are rendered differently depending on their type. Currently, only text, emoji and file types are supported. Each message object has an author field which can have the value ‘me’ or the id of the corresponding agent.

{
  author: 'support',
  type: 'text',
  id: 1, // or text '1'
  isEdited: false,
  data: {
    text: 'some text',
    meta: '06-16-2019 12:43'
  }
}

{
  author: 'me',
  type: 'emoji',
  id: 1, // or text '1'
  isEdited: false,
  data: {
    code: 'someCode'
  }
}

{
  author: 'me',
  type: 'file',
  id: 1, // or text '1'
  isEdited: false,
  data: {
    file: {
      name: 'file.mp3',
      url: 'https:123.rf/file.mp3'
    }
  }
}

Quick replies

When sending a message, you can provide a set of sentences that will be displayed in the user chat as quick replies. Adding in the message object a suggestions field with the value an array of strings will trigger this functionality

{
  author: 'support',
  type: 'text',
  id: 1, // or text '1'
  data: {
    text: 'some text',
    meta: '06-16-2019 12:43'
  },
  suggestions: ['some quick reply', ..., 'another one']
}

FAQ

git clone git@github.com:mattmezza/vue-beautiful-chat.git
cd vue-beautiful-chat
yarn install  # this installs the package dependencies
yarn watch  # this watches files to continuously compile them

cd demo
yarn install # this installs the demo dependencies
yarn dev # this starts the dev server at http://localhost:8080

```</details> <details><summary>How can I add a feature or fix a bug?</summary>

*   Fork the repository
*   Fix/add your changes
*   `yarn build` on the root to have the library compiled with your latest changes
*   create a pull request describing what you did
*   discuss the changes with the maintainer
*   boom! your changes are added to the main repo
*   a release is created almost once per week  😉</details> <details><summary>How can I customize the colors?</summary>

*   When initializing the component, pass an object specifying the colors used:

```js
let redColors = {
  header: {
    bg: '#D32F2F',
    text: '#fff'
  },
  launcher: {
    bg: '#D32F2F'
  },
  messageList: {
    bg: '#fff'
  },
  sentMessage: {
    bg: '#F44336',
    text: '#fff'
  },
  receivedMessage: {
    bg: '#eaeaea',
    text: '#222222'
  },
  userInput: {
    bg: '#fff',
    text: '#212121'
  }
}

<beautiful-chat
  ...
  :colors="redColors" />

Download Details:

Author: mattmezza

Demo: https://matteo.merola.co/vue-beautiful-chat/

Source Code: https://github.com/mattmezza/vue-beautiful-chat

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CSS Flexbox Tutorial | Build a Chat Application

Creating the conversation sidebar and main chat section

In this article we are going to focus on building a basic sidebar, and the main chat window inside our chat shell. See below.

Chat shell with a fixed width sidebar and expanded chat window

This is the second article in this series. You can check out the previous article for setting up the shell OR you can just check out the chat-shell branch from the following repository.

https://github.com/lyraddigital/flexbox-chat-app.git

Open up the chat.html file. You should have the following HTML.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Chat App</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css/chat.css" />
</head>
<body>
    <div id="chat-container">
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Now inside of the chat-container div add the following HTML.

<div id="side-bar">
</div>
<div id="chat-window">
</div>

Now let’s also add the following CSS under the #chat-container selector in the chat.css file.

#side-bar {
    background: #0048AA;
    border-radius: 10px 0 0 10px;
}
#chat-window {
    background: #999;
    border-radius: 0 10px 10px 0;
}

Now reload the page. You should see the following:-

So what happened? Where is our sidebar and where is our chat window? I expected to see a blue side bar and a grey chat window, but it’s no where to be found. Well it’s all good. This is because we have no content inside of either element, so it can be 0 pixels wide.

Sizing Flex Items

So now that we know that our items are 0 pixels wide, let’s attempt to size them. We’ll attempt to try this first using explicit widths.

Add the following width property to the #side-bar rule, then reload the page.

width: 275px;

Hmm. Same result. It’s still a blank shell. Oh wait I have to make sure the height is 100% too. So we better do that too. Once again add the following property to the #side-bar rule, then reload the page.

height: 100%;

So now we have our sidebar that has grown to be exactly 275 pixels wide, and is 100% high. So that’s it. We’re done right? Wrong. Let me ask you a question. How big is the chat window? Let’s test that by adding some text to it. Try this yourself just add some text. You should see something similar to this.

So as you can see the chat window is only as big as the text that’s inside of it, and it is not next to the side bar. And this makes sense because up until now the chat shell is not a flex container, and just a regular block level element.

So let’s make our chat shell a flex container. Set the following display property for the #chat-window selector. Then reload the page.

display: flex;

So as you can see by the above illustration, we can see it’s now next to the side bar, and not below it. But as you can see currently it’s only as wide as the text that’s inside of it.

But we want it to take up the remaining space of the chat shell. Well we know how to do this, as we did it in the previous article. Set the flex-grow property to 1 on the #chat-window selector. Basically copy and paste the property below and reload the page.

flex-grow: 1;

So now we have the chat window taking up the remaining space of the chat shell. Next, let’s remove the background property, and also remove all text inside the chat-window div if any still exists. You should now see the result below.

But are we done? Technically yes, but before we move on, let’s improve things a little bit.

Understanding the default alignment

If you remember, before we had defined our chat shell to be a flex container, we had to make sure we set the height of the side bar to be 100%. Otherwise it was 0 pixels high, and as a result nothing was displayed. With that said, try removing the height property from the #side-bar selector and see what happens when you reload the page. Yes that’s right, it still works. The height of the sidebar is still 100% high.

So what happened here? Why do we no longer have to worry about setting the height to 100%? Well this is one of the cool things Flexbox gives you for free. By default every flex item will stretch vertically to fill in the entire height of the flex container. We can in fact change this behaviour, and we will see how this is done in a future article.

Setting the size of the side bar properly

So another feature of Flexbox is being able to set the size of a flex item by using the flex-basis property. The flex-basis property allows you to specify an initial size of a flex item, before any growing or shrinking takes place. We’ll understand more about this in an upcoming article.

For now I just want you to understand one important thing. And that is using width to specify the size of the sidebar is not a good idea. Let’s see why.

Say that potentially, if the screen is mobile we want the side bar to now appear across the top of the chat shell, acting like a top bar instead. We can do this by changing the direction flex items can flex inside a flex container. For example, add the following CSS to the #chat-container selector. Then reload the page.

flex-direction: column;

So as you can see we are back to a blank shell. So firstly let’s understand what we actually did here. By setting the flex-direction property to column, we changed the direction of how the flex items flex. By default flex items will flex from left to right. However when we set flex-direction to column, it changes this behaviour forcing flex items to flex from top to bottom instead. On top of this, when the direction of flex changes, the sizing and alignment of flex items changes as well.

When flexing from left to right, we get a height of 100% for free as already mentioned, and then we made sure the side bar was set to be 275 pixels wide, by setting the width property.

However now that we a flexing from top to bottom, the width of the flex item by default would be 100% wide, and you would need to specify the height instead. So try this. Add the following property to the #side-bar selector to set the height of the side bar. Then reload the page.

height: 275px;

Now we are seeing the side bar again, as we gave it a fixed height too. But we still have that fixed width. That’s not what we wanted. We want the side bar (ie our new top bar) here to now be 100% wide. Comment out the width for a moment and reload the page again.

So now we were able to move our side bar so it appears on top instead, acting like a top bar. Which as previously mentioned might be suited for mobile device widths. But to do this we had to swap the value of width to be the value of height. Wouldn’t it be great if this size was preserved regardless of which direction our items are flexing.

Try this, remove all widths and height properties from the #side-bar selector and write the following instead. Then reload the page.

flex-basis: 275px;

As you can see we get the same result. Now remove the flex-direction property from the #chat-container selector. Then once again reload the page.

Once again we are back to our final output. But now we also have the flexibility to easily change the side bar to be a top bar if we need to, by just changing the direction items can flow. Regardless of the direction of flex, the size of our side bar / top bar is preserved.

Conclusion

Ok so once again we didn’t build much, but we did cover a lot of concepts about Flexbox around sizing. 

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8 Popular Websites That Use The Vue.JS Framework

In this article, we are going to list out the most popular websites using Vue JS as their frontend framework.

Vue JS is one of those elite progressive JavaScript frameworks that has huge demand in the web development industry. Many popular websites are developed using Vue in their frontend development because of its imperative features.

This framework was created by Evan You and still it is maintained by his private team members. Vue is of course an open-source framework which is based on MVVM concept (Model-view view-Model) and used extensively in building sublime user-interfaces and also considered a prime choice for developing single-page heavy applications.

Released in February 2014, Vue JS has gained 64,828 stars on Github, making it very popular in recent times.

Evan used Angular JS on many operations while working for Google and integrated many features in Vue to cover the flaws of Angular.

“I figured, what if I could just extract the part that I really liked about Angular and build something really lightweight." - Evan You

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10 Best Vue Icon Component For Your Vue.js App

Icons are the vital element of the user interface of the product enabling successful and effective interaction with it. In this article, I will collect 10 Vue icon component to bring more interactivity, better UI design to your Vue application.

1. Animated SweetAlert Icons for Vue

A clean and simple Vue wrapper for SweetAlert’s fantastic status icons. This wrapper is intended for users who are interested in just the icons. For the standard SweetAlert modal with all of its bells and whistles, you should probably use Vue-SweetAlert 2

Demo: https://vue-sweetalert-icons.netlify.com/

Download: https://github.com/JorgenVatle/vue-sweetalert-icons/archive/master.zip

2. vue-svg-transition

Create 2-state, SVG-powered animated icons.

Demo: https://codesandbox.io/s/6v20q76xwr

Download: https://github.com/kai-oswald/vue-svg-transition/archive/master.zip

3. Vue-Awesome

Awesome SVG icon component for Vue.js, with built-in Font Awesome icons.

Demo: https://justineo.github.io/vue-awesome/demo/

Download: https://github.com/Justineo/vue-awesome/archive/master.zip

4. vue-transitioning-result-icon

Transitioning Result Icon for Vue.js

A scalable result icon (SVG) that transitions the state change, that is the SVG shape change is transitioned as well as the color. Demonstration can be found here.

A transitioning (color and SVG) result icon (error or success) for Vue.

Demo: https://transitioning-result-icon.dexmo-hq.com/

Download: https://github.com/dexmo007/vue-transitioning-result-icon/archive/master.zip

5. vue-zondicons

Easily add Zondicon icons to your vue web project.

Demo: http://www.zondicons.com/icons.html

Download: https://github.com/TerryMooreII/vue-zondicons/archive/master.zip

6. vicon

Vicon is an simple iconfont componenet for vue.

iconfont
iconfont is a Vector Icon Management & Communication Platform made by Alimama MUX.

Download: https://github.com/Lt0/vicon/archive/master.zip

7. vue-svgicon

A tool to create svg icon components. (vue 2.x)

Demo: https://mmf-fe.github.io/vue-svgicon/v3/

Download: https://github.com/MMF-FE/vue-svgicon/archive/master.zip

8. vue-material-design-icons

This library is a collection of Vue single-file components to render Material Design Icons, sourced from the MaterialDesign project. It also includes some CSS that helps make the scaling of the icons a little easier.

Demo: https://gitlab.com/robcresswell/vue-material-design-icons

Download: https://gitlab.com/robcresswell/vue-material-design-icons/tree/master

9. vue-ionicons

Vue Icon Set Components from Ionic Team

Design Icons, sourced from the Ionicons project.

Demo: https://mazipan.github.io/vue-ionicons/

Download: https://github.com/mazipan/vue-ionicons/archive/master.zip

10. vue-ico

Dead easy, Google Material Icons for Vue.

This package’s aim is to get icons into your Vue.js project as quick as possible, at the cost of all the bells and whistles.

Demo: https://material.io/resources/icons/?style=baseline

Download: https://github.com/paulcollett/vue-ico/archive/master.zip

I hope you like them!

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7 Best Vue Highlight Component for Your Vue App

Vue highlight is often used to highlight text and syntax. Here are the 7 Vue highlight components I’ve collected.

1. vue-snippets

Vue3 Snippets, This extension adds Vue3 Code Snippets into Visual Studio Code.

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2. vim-vue-plugin

Vim syntax and indent plugin for vue files

Download

3. vue-highlighter

Vue directive for highlight multiple istances of a word.

Download

4. vue-code-highlight

Beautiful code syntax highlighting as Vue.js component.

Download

5. Vue Prism Editor

A dead simple code editor with syntax highlighting and line numbers. 7kb/gz

Features

• Code Editing ^^
• Syntax highlighting
• Undo / Redo
• Copy / Paste
• The spaces/tabs of the previous line is preserved when a new line is added
• Works on mobile (thanks to contenteditable)
• Resize to parent width and height
• Support for line numbers
• Support for autosizing the editor
• Autostyling the linenumbers(optional)

Demo

Download

6. vue-highlight-words

A simple port from react-highlight-words

Vue component to highlight words within a larger body of text.

Demo

Download

7. vue-highlight-text

Vue component for highlight multiple istances of a word.

Demo

Download

Thank for read!

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Collection of 10 Vue Markdown Component for Vue.js App

Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown.

The 10 Vue markdown components below will give you a clear view.

1. Vue Showdown

Use showdown as a Vue component.

View Demo

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2. showdown-markdown-editor

A markdown editor using codemirror and previewer using showdown for Vue.js.

View Demo

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3. markdown-it-vue

The vue lib for markdown-it.

View Demo

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4. perfect-markdown

perfect-markdown is a markdown editor based on Vue & markdown-it. The core is inspired by the implementation of mavonEditor, so perfect-markdown has almost all of the functions of mavonEditor. What’s more, perfect-markdown also extends some features based on mavonEditor.

View Demo

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5. v-markdown-editor

Vue.js Markdown Editor component.

View Demo

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6. markdown-to-vue-loader

Markdown to Vue component loader for Webpack.

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7. fo-markdown-note Component for Vue.js

fo-markdown-note is a Vue.js component that provides a simple Markdown editor that can be included in your Vue.js project.

fo-markdown-note is a thin Vue.js wrapper around the SimpleMDE Markdown editor JavaScript control.

View Demo

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8. Vue-SimpleMDE

Markdown Editor component for Vue.js. Support both vue1.0 & vue2.0

View Demo

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9. mavonEditor

A nice vue.js markdown editor. Support WYSIWYG editing mode, reading mode and so on.

View Demo

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10. vue-markdown

A Powerful and Highspeed Markdown Parser for Vue.

View Demo

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Thank for read!

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