In this tutorial you’ll discover how to set up and build a simple standalone chat application using PubNub Chat Components. Components are ready-made building blocks to add chat features to new or existing apps. Please note that PubNub will discontinue support for Chat Components on January 1, 2025. They will remain open-source and community-maintained but will no longer receive feature updates from PubNub.

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Your app will include:

Your app will include:

  • Chat - Required state provider

  • Message List - Shows list of channel messages

  • Message Input - Input for sending new messages

  • Channel List - List of channels you can access and send
    messages to

  • Channel Members - List of users in a channel and updates
    with new users

  • Typing Indicator - Indication of typing activity before
    messages are sent to a channel