Embed instant messaging into your Web App!

ChatJS is a full-featured, lightweight, Facebook style jQuery plugin for instant messaging. ChatJS also comes with a server side implementation for ASP.NET/SignalR out of the box.

Download Leave demo chat

... or visit the project at GitHub.

How it works:

The client part is divided in two JavaScript files. The file jquery.chatjs.jscontains the main jQuery plugin $.chat() andjquery.chatjs.signalradapter.js contains the adapter function needed to tell the plug-in how to interact with the server.

Once the server is set up, the client code is quite simple. These are all the options:

$.chat({
    // your user information
    user: {
        Id: 3,
        Name: 'John Silver',
        ProfilePictureUrl: 'http://www.foo.com/avatar/123'
    },
    // text displayed when the other user is typing
    typingText: ' is typing...',
    // the title for the user's list window
    titleText: 'ChatJS demo chat',
    // text displayed when there's no other users in the room
    emptyRoomText: "There's no one around here.",
    // the adapter you are using
    adapter: new SignalRAdapter()
});

Features:

• Real time message sharing (Oh really?).
• Automatically parses URLs and emoticons .
• Automatically remembers opened windows across diferent requests (through cookies).
• Triggers a sound notification when the user receives a message.
• Indicates when the other user is typing.
• Supports multiple chat rooms. If you have a multi-tenancy app you can create a room for each tenancy, for instance.
• Supports multiple browser windows opened with the same session. They all get properly sinchronized.
• Customizable texts. You can easily translate it to your language.
• Both client and server code ready to be used for ASP.NET with SignalR.