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Overview

Installation

To get started, you will need to install MinChat Javascript SDK in your Javascript front-end project.
npm
yarn
pnpm
npm install @minchat/js
yarn add @minchat/js
pnpm install @minchat/js
​
The MinChat SDK needs to be initialized with the MINCHAT_API_KEY as a parameter as well as a User object representing the current user logged in. The API Key can be found on the Minchat dashboard.​
add to imports section
import MinChat from '@minchat/js'
const currentUser = {
username: "micheal",
name: "Micheal Saunders",
avatar: "urltoavatar.com/avatar.jpg" //optional
}
​
const minchat = MinChat.getInstance(MINCHAT_API_KEY).connectUser(currentUser)

Event Listeners

Listen for conversations

This is called whenever a new message is received in a conversation, new or old.
minchat.onChat((chat) => {
//do something with the chat
})
Response
Field
Type
Description
chat
​Chat​
The chat object that has received a new message.

Functions

Create User

You should create users in your MinChat application to initiate conversations with. Users are at the core of all conversations. MinChat applications are made up of users who chat in either group chats or one-to-one conversations.
in MinChat, a User is a person that uses your app. Typically, you will have one MinChat User for each user in your own database.
Usually, you would create users based on the data from your database. A User is represented by a JSON object.
const otherUser = await minchat.createUser({
username: "example-username",
name: "Example Name",
avatar: "urltoavatar.com/avatar.jpg" //optional
})
You can view more details about the user parameters here.
note: createUser(...) automatically creates a new user in the system, if a user with the same username already exists then it will reuse that user.

Get Conversations

You can get a list of the conversations of the current user. conversations retrieved are paginated to 25 messages at a time.
async/await
callback
​
const { chats , page , totalChats , totalPages } = await minchat.getChats(1 /** page to query **/ )
​
minchat.getChats(1 /** page to query **/ , ({ chats , page , totalChats , totalPages })=>{
//do something with the list of chats
})
Parameters
Field
Type
State
Description
page
number
optional
query a specific page of chats, each page contains 25 chats. if null or undefined then the most recent 25 chats are returned
Response
Field
Type
Description
chats
​Chat[]​
array of Chat objects
page
number
shows the current page of chats. each page contains 25 chats
totalChats
number
shows the total number of chats that exist
totalPages
number
shows the total number of pages of chats that exist. each page contains 25 chats

Start One-to-One Conversation

const chat = await minchat.chat(otherUser.id)
Field
Type
State
Description
id
string
required
The id of the user to start a conversation with. (note: this user must already be created)

Start Group Chat

​
const chat = await minchat.groupChat({
name: "Epic Group Chat",
memberIds: [ otherUser.id , thirdUser.id ],
avatar: "exampleavatar.com"
})
​
Field
Type
State
Description
name
string
optional
The name of the group chat.
memberIds
string
required
id list of participants of the group chat.
avatar
string | file
optional
the avatar of the group chat
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