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A highly-customizable web-based client for Azure Bot Services.

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Migrating from v3 to v4 of Web Chat

There are three possible paths that migration might take when migrating from v3 to v4. First please compare your beginning scenario:

My current site uses an iframe obtained from Azure Bot Services (which uses v3 of Web Chat). I want to upgrade to v4.

  • At this time, it is not possible to upgrade to v4 of Web Chat by pasting an iframe into your site. Please follow the implementation of sample 01.a.getting-started-full-bundle to upgrade to Web Chat v4.

My Bot's webpage is rendering Web Chat v3 and uses customization options provided by Web Chat, no customization at all, or very little of my own customization that was not available with Web Chat.

My bot's version of Web Chat is from a fork of v3. I have implemented a lot of customization in my version of Web Chat, and I am concerned v4 is not compatible with my needs.

  • One of our team's favorite things about v4 of Web Chat is the ability to add customization without the need to fork Web Chat. Although this creates additional overhead for v3 users who forked Web Chat previously, we will do our best to support customers making the bump. Please use the following suggestions:
    • Take a look at the implementation of sample 01.c.getting-started-migration. This is a great starting place to get Web Chat up and running.
    • Next, please go through the samples list to compare your customization requirements to what Web Chat has already provided support for. These samples are made up of commonly asked-for features for Web Chat.
    • If one or more of your features is not available in the samples, please look through our open and closed issues, Samples label, and the Migration Support label to search for sample requests and/or customization support for a feature you are looking for. Adding your comment to open issues will help the team prioritize requests that are in high demand, and we encourage participation in our community.
    • If you did not find your feature in the list of open requests, please feel free to file your own request. Just like the item above, other customers adding comments to your open issue will help us prioritize which features are most commonly needed across Web Chat users.
    • Finally, if you need your feature as soon as possible, we welcome pull requests to Web Chat. If you have the coding experience to implement the feature yourself, we would very much appreciate the additional support! Creating the feature yourself will mean that it is available for your use on Web Chat more quickly, and that other customers looking for the same or similar feature may utilize your contribution.
    • Make sure to check out the rest of this README to learn more about v4.

How to use

For previous versions of Web Chat (v3), visit the Web Chat v3 branch.

First, create a bot using Azure Bot Service. Once the bot is created, you will need to obtain the bot's Web Chat secret in Azure Portal. Then use the secret to generate a token and pass it to your Web Chat.

Here is how how you can add Web Chat control 8000 to your website:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="webchat" role="main"></div>
    <script src="https://cdn.botframework.com/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat.js"></script>
    <script>
      window.WebChat.renderWebChat({
        directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ token: 'YOUR_DIRECT_LINE_TOKEN' }),
        userID: 'YOUR_USER_ID',
        username: 'Web Chat User',
        locale: 'en-US',
        botAvatarInitials: 'WC',
        userAvatarInitials: 'WW'
      }, document.getElementById('webchat'));
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

userID, username, locale, botAvatarInitials, and userAvatarInitials are all optional parameters to pass into the renderWebChat method. To learn more about Web Chat props, look at the Web Chat API Reference section of this README.

Screenshot of Web Chat

Integrate with JavaScript

Web Chat is designed to integrate with your existing web site using JavaScript or React. Integrating with JavaScript will give you moderate styling and customizability.

Full bundle

You can use the full, typical webchat package that contains the most typically used features.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="webchat" role="main"></div>
    <script src="https://cdn.botframework.com/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat.js"></script>
    <script>
      window.WebChat.renderWebChat({
        directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ token: 'YOUR_DIRECT_LINE_TOKEN' }),
        userID: 'YOUR_USER_ID'
      }, document.getElementById('webchat'));
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

See the working sample of the full Web Chat bundle.

Minimal bundle

Instead of using the full, typical package of Web Chat, you can choose a lighter-weight sample with fewer features. This bundle does not contain:

  • Adaptive Cards
  • Cognitive Services
  • Markdown-It

Since Adaptive Cards is not included in this bundle, rich cards that depend on Adaptive Cards will not render, e.g. hero cards, receipt cards, etc. A list of attachments that are not supported without Adaptive Cards can be found on the createAdaptiveCardMiddleware.js file.

See a working sample of the minimal Web Chat bundle.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="webchat" role="main"></div>
    <script src="https://cdn.botframework.com/botframework-webchat/latest/webchat-minimal.js"></script>
    <script>
      window.WebChat.renderWebChat({
        directLine: window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ token: 'YOUR_DIRECT_LINE_TOKEN' }),
        userID: 'YOUR_USER_ID'
      }, document.getElementById('webchat'));
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Integrate with React

For full customizability, you can use React to recompose components of Web Chat.

To install the production build from NPM, run npm install botframework-webchat.

import { DirectLine } from 'botframework-directlinejs';
import React from 'react';
import ReactWebChat from 'botframework-webchat';

export default class extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.directLine = new DirectLine({ token: 'YOUR_DIRECT_LINE_TOKEN' });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <ReactWebChat directLine={ this.directLine } userID="YOUR_USER_ID" />
      element
    );
  }
}

You can also run npm install botframework-webchat@master to install a development build that is synced with Web Chat's GitHub master branch.

See a working sample of Web Chat rendered via React.

Customize Web Chat UI

Web Chat is designed to be customizable without forking the source code. The table below outlines what kind of customizations you can achieve when you are importing Web Chat in different ways. This list is not exhaustive.

CDN bundle React
Change colors ✔️ ✔️
Change sizes ✔️ ✔️
Update/replace CSS styles ✔️ ✔️
Listen to events ✔️ ✔️
Interact with hosting webpage ✔️ ✔️
Custom render activities ✔️
Custom render attachments ✔️
Add new UI components ✔️
Recompose the whole UI ✔️

See more about customizing Web Chat to learn more on customization.

Building the project

If you need to build this project for customization purposes, we strongly advise you to refer to our samples. If you cannot find any samples that fulfill your customization needs and you don't know how to do that, please send your dream to us.

Forking Web Chat to make your own customizations means you will lose access to our latest updates. Maintaining forks also introduces chores that are substantially more complicated than a version bump.

To build Web Chat, you will need to make sure both your Node.js and NPM is latest version (either LTS or current).

npm install
npm run bootstrap
npm run build

Build tasks

There are 3 types of build tasks in the build process.

  • npm run build: Build for development (instrumented code for code coverage)
    • Will bundle as webchat-instrumented*.js
  • npm run watch: Build for development with watch mode loop
  • npm run prepublishOnly: Build for production
    • Will bundle as webchat*.js

Testing Web Chat for development purpose

We built a playground app for testing Web Chat so we can test certain Web Chat specific features.

cd packages/playground
npm start

Then browse to http://localhost:3000/, and click on one of the connection options on the upper right corner.

You are also advised to test the CDN bundles by copying the test harness from our samples.

Building CDN bundle in development mode

Currently, the standard build script does not build the CDN bundle (webchat*.js).

cd packages/bundle
npm run webpack-dev

By default, this script will run in watch mode.

Building CDN bundle in production mode

If you want to build a production CDN bundle with minification, you can follow these steps.

cd packages/bundle
npm run prepublishOnly

Samples list

               Sample Name                     Description Link
01.a.getting-started-full-bundle Introduces Web Chat embed from a CDN, and demonstrates a simple, full-featured Web Chat. This includes Adaptive Cards, Cognitive Services, and Markdown-It dependencies. Full Bundle Demo
01.b.getting-started-es5-bundle Introduces full-featured Web Chat embed with backwards compatibility for ES5 browsers using Web Chat's ES5 ponyfill. ES5 Bundle Demo
01.c.getting-started-migration Demonstrates how to migrate from your Web Chat v3 bot to v4. Migration Demo
02.a.getting-started-minimal-bundle Introduces the minimized CDN with only basic dependencies. This does NOT include Adaptive Cards, Cognitive Services dependencies, or Markdown-It dependencies. Minimal Bundle Demo
02.b.getting-started-minimal-markdown Demonstrates how to add the CDN for Markdown-It d 8000 ependency on top of the minimal bundle. Minimal with Markdown Demo
03.a.host-with-react Demonstrates how to create a React component that hosts the full-featured Web Chat. Host with React Demo
03.b.host-with-Angular Demonstrates how to create an Angular component that hosts the full-featured Web Chat. Host with Angular Demo
04.a.display-user-bot-initials-styling Demonstrates how to display initials for both Web Chat participants. Bot initials Demo
04.b.display-user-bot-images-styling Demonstrates how to display images and initials for both Web Chat participants. User images Demo
05.a.branding-webchat-styling Introduces the ability to style Web Chat to match your brand. This method of custom styling will not break upon Web Chat updates. Branding Web Chat Demo
05.b.idiosyncratic-manual-styling Demonstrates how to make manual style changes, and is a more complicated and time-consuming way to customize styling of Web Chat. Manual styles may be broken upon Web Chat updates. Idiosyncratic Styling Demo
05.c.presentation-mode-styling Demonstrates how to set up Presentation Mode, which displays chat history but does not show the send box, and disables the interactivity of Adaptive Cards. Presentation Mode Demo
05.d.hide-upload-button-styling Demonstrates how to hide file upload button via styling. Hide Upload Button Demo
06.a.cognitive-services-bing-speech-js Introduces speech-to-text and text-to-speech ability using the (deprecated) Cognitive Services Bing Speech API and JavaScript. Bing Speech with JS Demo
06.b.cognitive-services-bing-speech-react Introduces speech-to-text and text-to-speech ability using the (deprecated) Cognitive Services Bing Speech API and React. Bing Speech with React Demo
06.c.cognitive-services-speech-services-js Introduces speech-to-text and text-to-speech ability using Cognitive Services Speech Services API. Speech Services with JS Demo
06.d.speech-web-browser Demonstrates how to implement text-to-speech using Web Chat's browser-based Web Speech API. (link to W3C standard in the sample) Web Speech API Demo
06.e.cognitive-services-speech-services-with-lexical-result Demonstrates how to use lexical result from Cognitive Services Speech Services API. Lexical Result Demo
06.f.hybrid-speech Demonstrates how to use both browser-based Web Speech API for speech-to-text, and Cognitive Services Speech Services API for text-to-speech. Hybrid Speech Demo
07.a.customization-timestamp-grouping Demonstrates how to customize timestamps by showing or hiding timestamps and changing the grouping of messages by time. Timestamp Grouping Demo
07.b.customization-send-typing-indicator Demonstrates how to send typing activity when the user start typing on the send box. User Typing Indicator Demo
08.customization-user-highlighting Demonstrates how to customize the styling of activities based whether the message is from the user or the bot. User Highlighting Demo
09.customization-reaction-buttons Introduces the ability to create custom components for Web Chat that are unique to your bot's needs. This tutorial demonstrates the ability to add reaction emoji such as 👍 and 👎 to conversational activities. Reaction Buttons Demo
10.a.customization-card-components Demonstrates how to create custom activity card attachments, in this case GitHub repository cards. Card Components Demo
10.b.customization-password-input Demonstrates how to create custom activity for password input. Password Input Demo
11.customization-redux-actions Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to incorporate redux middleware into your Web Chat app by sending redux actions through the bot. This example demonstrates manual styling based on activities between bot and user. Redux Actions Demo
12.customization-minimizable-web-chat Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to add the Web Chat interface to your website as a minimizable show/hide chat box. Minimizable Web Chat Demo
13.customization-speech-ui Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to fully customize key components of your bot, in this case speech, which entirely replaces the text-based transcript UI and instead shows a simple speech button with the bot's response. Speech UI Demo
14.customization-piping-to-redux Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to pipe bot activities to your own Redux store and use your bot to control your page through bot activities and Redux. Piping to Redux Demo
15.a.backchannel-piggyback-on-outgoing-activities Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to add custom data to every outgoing activities. Backchannel Piggybacking Demo
15.b.incoming-activity-event Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to forward all incoming activities to a JavaScript event for further processing. Incoming Activity Demo
15.c.programmatic-post-activity Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to send a message programmatically. Programmatic Posting Demo
15.d.backchannel-send-welcome-event Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to send welcome event with client capabilities such as browser language. Welcome Event Demo
16.customization-selectable-activity Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to add custom click behavior to each activity. Selectable Activity Demo
17.chat-send-history Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates the ability to save user input and allow the user to step back through previous sent messages. Chat Send History Demo
18.customization-open-url Advanced tutorial: Demonstrates how to customize the open URL behavior. Customize Open URL Demo

Web Chat API Reference

There are several properties that you might pass into your Web Chat React Component (<ReactWebChat>) or the renderWebChat() method. Feel free to examine the source code starting with packages/component/src/Composer.js. Below is a short description of the available props.

Property Description
activityMiddleware A chain of middleware, modeled after Redux middleware, that allows the developer to add new DOM components on the currently existing DOM of Activities. The middleware signature is the following: options => next => card => children => next(card)(children).
activityRenderer The "flattened" version of activityMiddleware, similar to the store enhancer concept in Redux.
adaptiveCardHostConfig Pass in a custom Adaptive Cards host config.
attachmentMiddleware A chain of middleware that allows the developer to add their own custom HTML Elements on attachments. The signature is the following: options => next => card => next(card).
attachmentRenderer The "flattened" version of attachmentMiddleware.
cardActionMiddleware A chain of middleware that allows the developer to modify card actions, like Adaptive Cards or suggested actions. The middleware signature is the following: cardActionMiddleware: () => next => ({ cardAction, getSignInUrl }) => next(cardAction)
directLine Specify the DirectLine object with DirectLine token.
disabled Disable the UI (i.e. for presentation mode) of Web Chat.
grammars Specify a grammar list for Speech (Bing Speech or Cognitive Services Speech Services).
groupTimeStamp Change default settings for timestamp groupings.
locale Indicate the default language of Web Chat. Four letter codes (such as en-US) are strongly recommended.
renderMarkdown Change the default Markdown renderer object.
sendTypingIndicator Display a typing signal from the user to the bot to indicate that the user is not idling.
store Specify a custom store, e.g. for adding programmatic activity to the bot.
styleOptions Object that stores customization values for your styling of Web Chat. For the complete list of (frequently updated) default style options, please see the defaultStyleSetOptions.js file.
styleSet The non-recommended way of overriding styles.
userID Specify a userID. There are two ways to specify the userID: in props, or in the token when generating the token call (createDirectLine()). If both methods are used to specify the userID, the token userID property will be used, and a console.warn will appear during runtime. If the userID is provided via props but is prefixed with 'dl', e.g. 'dl_1234', the value will be thrown and a new ID generated. If userID is not specified, it will default to a random user ID. Multiple users sharing the same user ID is not recommended; their user state will be shared.
username Specify a username.
webSpeechPonyFillFactory Specify the Web Speech object for text-to-speech and speech-to-text.

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