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Mar 25, 2021
Build Live Doctor-Patient Chat for Telemedicine in React
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This area is where a user can type a message and send it. You’ll want to consider the functionality you’ll need: Do you want to allow Emojis? Image and file uploads? Links?
In our React Chat Component Live Support Starter Kit we create a basic styled component that looks like this that results in what you see above:
<ComposeMessageBoxWrapper> <UserImgWrapper src={state.selfAvatar}/> <TextInputWrapper> <SendMessageField /> </TextInputWrapper> </ComposeMessageBoxWrapper>
This area shows a list of users that are online. You’ll want to consider the functionality you’ll need: does it show offline users in addition to online users? Is it selectable to enable one-to-one chats? Does it show message previews and the last time a user was seen online?
In our React Chat Component Simple Starter Kit we create a styled component that looks like this that results in what you see above:
<ActiveUsersHeader>Active User</ActiveUsersHeader> <ActiveUsersListWrapper>{ActiveUsers}</ActiveUsersListWrapper>
Once you’ve built out the essential features of live chat and messaging—like a message list and compose area—you can continue to give your uses more valuable features with PubNub, like:
In this article, we’ve outlined how to identify the right chat style and features to add into your app and how to build them with PubNub. PubNub offers a powerful real-time network and APIs to send and receive data in any application. Take advantage of our services to easily build chat with enterprise-grade security, scalability, and reliability. PubNub eliminates the time it takes to set up and manage your infrastructure so you can focus on solving business problems for your customers.
You can start creating your chat application or adding chat to your application with these resources:
And if you’re looking for a more customized chat solution and building support from our expert team of Solution Architects, get in touch with our sales team today.
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