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Create a Chat App with React and Nexmo

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To build a simple chat application with React and Nexmo's client-side JavaScript tooling, developers need to follow several steps. First, they must have a Vonage API account and create an application to generate conversation IDs. Then, they can add a new component to their React application at `client/src/Chatroom.js` and modify the existing `NexmoApp.js` file to use the new component. The chat room component will contain two states: choosing a chat room and the chat room itself, with functions for joining a conversation, sending messages, and rendering messages. Once the user is logged in and has joined a chat, they can send and receive messages using a textarea and button input field. The events raised by the message input are handled in `setInput` and `sendInput`, which store the inputted text in the component state and pass it to the Conversation using `sendText`. With this setup, developers have a basic chat application that can be extended with additional features such as error handling and performance optimization.

Company
Vonage

Date published
May 10, 2021

Author(s)
Garann Means

Word count
1373

Language
English

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