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My react Native 0.66 app uses gifted chat and socket.io to allow users to join a room (created by socket.io) and chat with others in the same room. The socket.io is used to broadcast a message to everyone in a room in real time. But recently socket.io has some connection issue. Is it possible to implement a real time chat using gifted chat only (with no socket.io)?

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Its not possible to only use gifted chat to communicate to other devices, you need a backend. A good and pretty well documented alternative to socket.io is firebase.
A basic guide: https://medium.com/@phylypo/react-native-simple-chat-with-firebase-and-giftedchat-f7dbdff2883a

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