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Subscribe to a user’s online status, and more

Subscribe to a user’s online status

A user profile with a name next to it, with an online status indicator bubble that turns from green (online) to gray (offline) and back.

You can now get and subscribe to real-time data on a user’s online status. TalkJS Core (1.4.0) now has  UserRef.subscribeOnline, which subscribes to a user's online status. Real-time user online status data allows you to build anything from custom chat headers to online members’ lists. 

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Overview of other changes

Added

  • TalkJS Core (1.3.0): Added TalkSession.subscribeConversations, which returns a windowed subscription to your most recent active conversations.

Changed

  • JavaScript SDK (0.40.1) and TalkJS Core (1.4.2): Changed GenericFileBlock from subtype?: undefined to subtype?: never so that type narrowing works consistently when you check for subtype.
  • React Native SDK (0.15.0): A Session component now creates a User if a user doesn’t yet exist. This means that you no longer need to mount a ConversationList or Chatbox in order for the user to be created in the backend, but can do this with only the Session component.
  • React Native SDK (0.15.0): Changed that every call to getConversationBuilder() returns a new object, even if the conversation ID already exists.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where voice messages recorded outside of the chat UI (for example, sent via the REST API) weren’t displaying correctly.
  • Fixed a bug in link suppressions. You can now selectively suppress certain links, instead of having to choose between suppressing either all or no links.
  • TalkJS Core (1.4.1): Fixed an error that occurred when subscribing to a single conversation while already subscribed to all conversations, or vice versa.
  • React Native SDK (0.15.0): Fixed an issue where onNotificationPressed didn’t work correctly on iOS when using Firebase for push notifications.
  • React Native SDK (0.15.0): Fixed a bug in iOS where sometimes the device token didn’t get registered.



Case study 

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Discover how Freelance.nl reinvented its chat system with TalkJS to improve user experience, scale faster, and boost developer productivity.

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