Rocket.Chat.Livechat

Currently, it's very common to find chat pop-ups when you're browsing websites.

Those widgets, at Rocket.Chat, are called LiveChat.

LiveChat is a small and lightweight application designed to provide B2C (Business-to-customer) communication between Agents and website visitors and is developed with Preact.

Running a development environment

With your Rocket.chat running locally at http://localhost:3000

1. Install all node dependencies.

yarn

2. Build preact application to /build folder

yarn dev

3. In another terminal, run webpack with hot reload at http://localhost:8080

yarn start

4. Open this file below in your browser

widget-demo.html

OBS: For a better performance, you can run this widget-demo.html on a http server.

Different host

To select a different host on your local widget, check this configuration at /src/api.js file.

const host = window.SERVER_URL
	|| queryString.parse(window.location.search).serverUrl
	|| (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' ? 'http://localhost:3000' : null);

Here, you can change to your new configuration.

const host = window.SERVER_URL
	|| queryString.parse(window.location.search).serverUrl
	|| (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' ? 'https://your.rocketserver.com' : null);

Available CLI Commands

# install dependencies
yarn

# serve with hot reload at localhost:8080
yarn start

# build preact application to "build" folder
yarn dev

# build for production with minification
yarn build

# test the production build locally
yarn serve

# run tests with jest and preact-render-spy
yarn test

# run the storybook
yarn storybook

# before commit run
yarn i18n

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