sendbird/sendbird-uikit-react v3.4.5

[v3.4.5] (Apr 07 2023)

on GitHub

Features:

• Add a message list filter of UI level in the Channel module

  • Add Channel.filterMessageList?: (messages: BaseMessage): boolean;, a UI level filter prop
    to Channel. This function will be used to filter messages in <MessageList />

    example:

    // set your channel URL
    const channel = "";
    export const ChannelWithFilter = () => {
      const channelFilter = useCallback((message) => {
        const now = Date.now();
        const twoWeeksAgo = now - 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 14;
        return message.createdAt > twoWeeksAgo;
      }, []);
      return (
        <Channel
             channelUrl={channel}
             filterMessageList={channelFilter}
         />
      );
    };

• Improve structure of message UI for copying
  Before:

  • The words inside messages were kept in separate spans
  • This would lead to unfavourable formatting when pasted in other applications

  After:

  • Remove span for wrapping simple strings in message body
  • Urls and Mentions will still be wrapped in spans(for formatting)
  • Apply new logic & components(TextFragment) to tokenize strings
  • Improve keys used in rendering inside message,
    • UUIDs are not the optimal way to improve rendering
    • Create a composite key with message.updatedAt
  • Refactor usePaste hook to make mentions work ~
  • Fix overflow of long strings
  • Deprecate Word and convertWordToStringObj

• Export MessageProvider, a simple provider to avoid prop drilling into Messages
  Note - this is still in works, but these props will remain

  • In the future, we will add methods - to this module - to:
    • Edit & delete callbacks
    • Menu render options(ACLs)
    • Reaction configs
    • This will improve the customizability and remove a lot of prop drilling in Messages

  export type MessageProviderProps = {
    children: React.ReactNode;
    message: BaseMessage;
    isByMe?: boolean;
  }
  
  import { MessageProvider, useMessageContext } from '@sendbird/uikit-react/Message/context'

  Incase if you were using MessageComponents and see error message
  useMessageContext must be used within a MessageProvider
  use: <MessageProvider message={message}><CustomMessage /></MessageProvider>

• Add a scheduler for calling markAsRead intervally

  • The markAsRead is called on individual channels is un-optimal(causes command ack. error)
    because we have a list of channels that do this
    ideally this should be fixed in server/SDK
    this is a work around for the meantime to un-throttle the customer

Fixes:

• Set current channel on ChannelList when opening channel from the parent message of Thread
  • Issue: The ChannelPreview item is not selected when opening the channel from
    the ParentMessage of the Thread
  • Fix: Set activeChannelUrl of ChannelList
• Detect new lines in safari on the MessageInput component
  • Safari puts <div>text</div> for new lines inside content editable div(input)
  • Other browsers put newline or br

Thanks @HoonBaek @AhyoungRyu