React js example. Clean chat box

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1. First, we need fresh reactjs setup, and for that, we need to run below commands into out terminal, and also we should have latest node version installed on our system:

npx create-react-app my-awesome-project

cd my-awesome-project

npm start

2. Now we need to run below commands into our project terminal to get bootstrap and related modules into our reactjs application:

npm install [email protected] --save

npm start //For start project again

3. Finally for the main output, we need to add below code into our my-awesome-project/src/App.js file or if you have fresh setup then you can replace my-awesome-project/src/App.js file code with below code:

import React from 'react';
import './App.css';
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';


function App() {
  
	return (
		<div>
			<div class="container bootstrap snippets bootdeys">
<div class="col-md-7 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-2">
  
  <div class="panel" id="chat">
    <div class="panel-heading">
      <h3 class="panel-title">
        <i class="icon wb-chat-text" aria-hidden="true"></i> Chat
      </h3>
    </div>
    <div class="panel-body">
      <div class="chats">
        <div class="chat">
          <div class="chat-avatar">
            <a class="avatar avatar-online" data-toggle="tooltip" href="#/" data-placement="right" title="" data-original-title="June Lane">
              <img src="https://bootdey.com/img/Content/avatar/avatar1.png" alt="..."/>
              <i></i>
            </a>
          </div>
          <div class="chat-body">
            <div class="chat-content">
              <p>
                Good morning, sir.
                <br/>What can I do for you?
              </p>
              <time class="chat-time" datetime="2015-07-01T11:37">11:37:08 am</time>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="chat chat-left">
          <div class="chat-avatar">
            <a class="avatar avatar-online" data-toggle="tooltip" href="#/" data-placement="left" title="" data-original-title="Edward Fletcher">
              <img src="https://bootdey.com/img/Content/avatar/avatar2.png" alt="..."/>
              <i></i>
            </a>
          </div>
          <div class="chat-body">
            <div class="chat-content">
              <p>Well, I am just looking around.</p>
              <time class="chat-time" datetime="2015-07-01T11:39">11:39:57 am</time>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="chat">
          <div class="chat-avatar">
            <a class="avatar avatar-online" data-toggle="tooltip" href="#/" data-placement="right" title="" data-original-title="June Lane">
              <img src="https://bootdey.com/img/Content/avatar/avatar1.png" alt="..."/>
              <i></i>
            </a>
          </div>
          <div class="chat-body">
            <div class="chat-content">
              <p>
                If necessary, please ask me.
              </p>
              <time class="chat-time" datetime="2015-07-01T11:40">11:40:10 am</time>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="panel-footer">
      <form>
        <div class="input-group">
          <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Say something"/>
          <span class="input-group-btn">
            <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button">Send</button>
          </span>
        </div>
      </form>
    </div>
  </div>
  
</div>
</div>
		</div>
	);
}
export default App;

4. Now we need to add below code into our my-awesome-project/src/App.css file :


body {
background:#ddd;
margin-top:10px;
}

.chat-box {
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    background-color: #fff;
    overflow: hidden
}

.chats {
    padding: 30px 15px
}

.chat-avatar {
    float: right
}

.chat-avatar .avatar {
    width: 30px;
        -webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 2px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.2),0 6px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
    box-shadow: 0 2px 2px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.2),0 6px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.chat-body {
    display: block;
    margin: 10px 30px 0 0;
    overflow: hidden
}

.chat-body:first-child {
    margin-top: 0
}

.chat-content {
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    float: right;
    padding: 8px 15px;
    margin: 0 20px 10px 0;
    clear: both;
    color: #fff;
    background-color: #62a8ea;
    border-radius: 4px;
        -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 4px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.37);
    box-shadow: 0 1px 4px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.37);
}

.chat-content:before {
    position: absolute;
    top: 10px;
    right: -10px;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    content: '';
    border: 5px solid transparent;
    border-left-color: #62a8ea
}

.chat-content>p:last-child {
    margin-bottom: 0
}

.chat-content+.chat-content:before {
    border-color: transparent
}

.chat-time {
    display: block;
    margin-top: 8px;
    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .6)
}

.chat-left .chat-avatar {
    float: left
}

.chat-left .chat-body {
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-left: 30px
}

.chat-left .chat-content {
    float: left;
    margin: 0 0 10px 20px;
    color: #76838f;
    background-color: #dfe9ef
}

.chat-left .chat-content:before {
    right: auto;
    left: -10px;
    border-right-color: #dfe9ef;
    border-left-color: transparent
}

.chat-left .chat-content+.chat-content:before {
    border-color: transparent
}

.chat-left .chat-time {
    color: #a3afb7
}

.panel-footer {
    padding: 0 30px 15px;
    background-color: transparent;
    border-top: 1px solid transparent;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;
    border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;
}
.avatar img {
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 100%;
    height: auto;
    border: 0 none;
    border-radius: 1000px;
}
.chat-avatar .avatar {
    width: 30px;
}
.avatar {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 40px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    border-radius: 1000px;
    vertical-align: bottom;
}