Chat App UI

A chat UI built with next.js (react), shadcn, zustand, tailwind

Live Preview:

https://chat-ui-ten-kappa.vercel.app/

Steps to Run Locally:

1. clone this repo to your local machine.

2. cd into the project directory and install all dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. run the project on your local development server:

npm run dev
# or
yarn dev
# or
pnpm dev
# or
bun dev

Included Features:

• Send, receive, and display messages for a chat
• Create new chat from list of contacts
• Expand/Collapse Sidebar
• Emoji Support
• Sidebar latest messages preview/ordering
• Supports multiple channels/chats
• Autoscroll to last message in chat

Additional Features (to be implemented, time permitting):

In a fully featured chat UI, there would be many additional considerations/features to implement, including:

• Integration with backend datalayer/DB
• Message caching (i.e. only pull last 100 message from chat, load more on scroll up/event)
• Intgration with websockets for realtime messaging
• Message typing indicator
• Online/Offline indicator status
• Unread message indicator/notification
• Light/Dark mode support
• Reacting (emoji) to individual chat messages
• Support for group chat
• Support for various media type messages (image, video, file attachments, etc)
• Support for Voice/Video chat
• Optimized mobile styling
• Undo/edit existing message