This month’s update brings the all-new, fully customizable TalkJS chat UI components, plus several fixes, SDK improvements, and new resources for developers.

Highlights

Introducing TalkJS chat UI components, now 100% more customizable ✨

Add fully customizable chat to your app with the new TalkJS chat UI components, rebuilt from the ground up for maximum flexibility. These prebuilt components let you control every aspect of your chat’s design and behavior while keeping setup simple. They work with all major web frameworks, including React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, Svelte, and plain JavaScript, and can be styled or extended using props, events, and CSS. The guides show how to get a working chat running in minutes, then fine-tune it with custom themes, layouts, and interactions.

A note for existing users: If you’re already using TalkJS’ React or JavaScript SDKs, don’t worry, these are now called Classic SDKs. They’re fully supported and continue to work exactly as before. No changes needed in your current setup. 

Read more about chat UI components →

Other changes

Changed

• JavaScript Data API (1.5.5): Marked snapshot properties as readonly, to prevent modification of snapshots. 
• Classic JavaScript SDK (0.42.1): Marked snapshot properties as readonly, to prevent modification of snapshots. 

Deprecated

• Deprecated the @talkjs/components package. Use @talkjs/react-components or @talkjs/web-components instead. 
• Deprecated the @talkjs/theme-default package. Use @talkjs/react-components or @talkjs/web-components instead. 

Fixed

Components

  Version 0.0.27

• Fixed a bug where trying to insert mentions or emojis while using a custom theme would silently fail.
• Fixed a bug where selecting the action to edit a message would cause an error.

  Version 0.0.26

• Fixed a bug that would prevent users from sending messages longer than 1,000 characters.

  Version 0.0.25

• Fixed a bug where the UI jumped when a user clicked message actions.
• Fixed a bug that prevented programmatically selecting a conversation. 
• Fixed a bug that would make one’s scroll position jump when you add emojis from the emoji picker.
• Fixed an issue to ensure that when a user marks a conversation as unread, it’s only marked as read again when the user switches to it or remounts.

JavaScript Data API

• Version 1.5.9: Fixed a bug that would make the library crash under certain conditions.
• Version 1.5.8: Fixed a bug where the SDK wasn’t working correctly for React Native.
• Version 1.5.7: Fixed a bug that would cause a crash on React Native.
• Version 1.5.6: Fixed a bug for using the library for on-premise deployments. 

Classic JavaScript SDK

• Fixed an issue with content suppression on links that appear inside text nodes.
• Fixed an issue where users on iOS using Webview would have to double tap links in order to navigate to them.

Other

• Fixed a bug where importing a large volume of messages with the exact same timestamp using the REST API could result in errors.

New resources

GameBoost case study

Discover how GameBoost scaled real-time communication globally with TalkJS, boosting response times, user trust, and developer efficiency. 

Read the case study → 

TalkJS code sandbox

Edit TalkJS code examples and get updates instantly in a live chat preview.

Try out the code sandbox →

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