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Javascript Implementation For Chats

Explore how to implement chat functionality in React using JavaScript and Redux. Learn to manage active user messages, convert message objects to arrays for rendering, and integrate chat components with the application state for dynamic message display.

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If you haven’t already, create the files, Chats.js and Chats.css in the components directory.

Now, import Chats and render it below the <Header /> component in ChatWindow.

containers/ChatWindow.js:

Javascript (babel-node)
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import Chats from "../components/Chats";
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return (
  <div className="ChatWindow">
    <Header user={activeUser} />
    <Chats />
  </div> 
);

The <Chats/> component will take the list of messages from the state object, map ...