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In all the react-native tutorials I have seen so far, on building a chat app, I see them using gifted chat.

After installing the library, it is really buggy and slow. Below are some things I experience when using it.

  1. When I have messages over 100, it takes time to load my chats.
  2. When I press the send button, It takes time as well before updating the chat list(about a second).

Are there any other alternatives to gifted chat?

blessing dickson
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Slowness or fastness would depend on the "backend" (database and/or server) you are integrating your chat app (or component) with. Firebase (from Google) FireStore or Firebase Realtime DB would be one of the best options to choose from. This might help you in integrating Firebase DB with gifted-chat.

gmaster
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  • Even with only one message, pressing send on gifted chat is slow. Before I even started fetching from the server – blessing dickson Nov 25 '20 at 19:28
  • Most likely some issue in your implementation or slowness in the testing environment/app. You should update your question with the code. – gmaster Nov 26 '20 at 10:20
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react-native-gifted-chat seem not to be actively maintained.

I found react-chat-elements I did not try it yet.

If you found something else please leave a comment.

good look with your search.

cesarve
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