Robin.io-js

Table of Contents

Introduction
Prerequisites
Getting Started
Sending your first message
License

Introduction

Robin.io-js is a Javascript SDK built to communicate with the Robinapp API. Now you can integrate Robin.io with minimal effort and quickly setup a real-time messaging platform in your Web application.

Interactive Demo

Checkout the Interactive Demo here.
You can also checkout the sample repository here.

Prerequisites

This library supports the following browsers:

Browser	Supported versions
Internet Explorer	10 or higher
Edge	13 or higher
Chrome	16 or higher
Firefox	11 or higher
Safari	7 or higher
Opera	12.1 or higher
iOS Safari	7 or higher
Android Browswer	4.4 (Kitkat) or higher

Getting started

Step 1: Create a Robinapp account

A Robinapp account comprises everything required in a chat service including users, message, and api-keys. To create an application:

Go to the Robinapp Dashboard and enter your email and password, and create a new account.
Navigate to Api Config and copy your API key

Note: All the data is limited to the scope of a single user account, thus the users in different Robinapp accounts are unable to chat with each other.

Step 2: Install the Chat SDK

  ## NPM

  npm install robin.io-js --save

  OR

  ## YARN

  yarn add robinapp.io-js

Sending your first message

Follow the step-by-step instructions below to authenticate and send your first message.

Authentication

To use the features of the Chat SDK in your client app, a robin instance must be initiated in each client app before user authentication with Robin server. These instances communicate and interact with the server based on an authenticated user account, allowing for the client app to use the Chat SDK features.

Step 1: Initialize the Chat SDK

You need to initialize a robin instance before authentication. Initialization binds the Chat SDK to Javascript’s context which allows the Chat SDK to respond to connection, state changes and also enables client apps to use the Chat SDK features.

To initialize a Robin instance, pass the API key as the first argument to in the new Robin() method, You can find your API key in the API Configuration tab in your Robin Account.

Then true or false for as the second parameter as it tells the sdk whether to load with ssl or not. As the new Robin() can only be a single instance, call it only a single time across your Javascript client app. Typically, initialization is implemented in the user login screen.

Note: It is recommended to initialize the Chat SDK at the top of your Javascript file.

const robin = new Robin('<api_key>', true);

Step 2: Connect to Robin server

You'll need a USER_TOKEN to connect to the Robin server.

A. Create User Token

Create user token

const response = await robin.createUserToken({
  meta_data: {
    username: 'elvis',
  },
});

Connect to the Robin server using the USER_TOKEN you just created.

robin.connect(USER_TOKEN);

Step 3: Channels

All messages sent via Robin are sent through channels, you can consider channels as tunnels that relay messages to all connected clients.

Step 4: Create a conversation

Before we can send a message to a channel we first need to create a converstion.

const response = await robin.createConversation({
  sender_name: string,
  sender_token: string,
  receiver_token: string,
  receiver_name: string
})

Step 5: Send a message to a conversation

Finally, send a message to a conversation.

robin.sendMessageToConversation(msg: object, conn: WebSocket, channel:string,conversation_id: string, senderToken?: string);

Options

The following are general attributes used in Robin:

Attribute	Type	Default	Description
Conn	WebSocket	null	Websocket opbject returned after calling robin.connect()
sender_name	String	''	Name of the person sending the message
sender_token	String	''	USER_TOKEN of the person sending the message
receiver_name	String	''	Name of the person receiving the message
receiver_token	String	''	USER_TOKEN of the person receiving the message
msg	Object	{}	Json serializable object containing the message

If you have any comments or questions regarding bugs and feature requests, visit Robinapp community.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.