azamoras/conversations-demo

Demo chat app for use in Conversations Quickstart, with updated UI.

The Demo Conversations App

This is a lightweight application based on Twilio Chat.

Configuring and getting started

This demo requires a Twilio account and a working Chat Service SID. You'll need to collect some credentials from the Twilio Console:

• Your Account SID (ACXXX) and Auth Token, both accessible from the Dashboard
• Your Account's Chat Service Sid ISXXX SID which is attached to your Chat Service

Testing

The demo application can be configured and run in two ways:

• Forking the demo-chat-application on CodeSandbox.io (recommended)
• Cloning this repo and running locally

Replacing the Chat Token

In order for your Chat Application to work, we need to authenticate a Chat user by retrieving a short-lived token attached to your API Key. The getToken function in ConversationsApp.js has a placeholder for your chat token.

You can generate a token in a few ways:

• Using the twilio-cli and twilio token plugin (Recommended)
• Using Twilio Runtime Function

For the twilio-cli option, run the following command and enter the resulting token into the placeholder:

twilio token:chat --identity <The test chat username> --chat-service-sid <ISXXX...>

After generating a token manually, it will expire after a timeout period, so you will need to replace the token. To use this in production software, you would typically create a token endpoint in your back end application that uses your existing user authentication strategy.