twilio / twilio-chat-demo-js

Programmable Chat API Demo Application for JavaScript

Deprecated

Please use the new conversations-demo-react.

Running the demo

Set credentials

1. Copy credentials.example.json to credentials.json
2. Plug your credentials into credentials.json

You can find the following credentials in your Twilio Console:

Config Value	Description
accountSid	Your primary Twilio account identifier - find this in the console here.
signingKeySid	The SID for your API Key, used to authenticate - generate one here.
signingKeySecret	The secret for your API Key, used to authenticate - you'll get this when you create your API key, as above.
serviceSid	Like a database for your Chat data - generate one in the console here.
pushCredentialSid	Credentials are records for push notification channels for APN and FCM - generate them in the console here and read more about configuring push here.

Install dependencies

$ npm install

Run server

$ npm start

Connect

Connect via http://localhost:8080

Using another version

This demo defaults to using the latest build of the Chat JS SDK. To change to a different version, just open public/index.html and change the following string to point to the URL of the version you'd like to use, for example to use v3.2.1:

<script src="https://media.twiliocdn.com/sdk/js/chat/releases/3.2.1/twilio-chat.min.js"></script>