Customizing Your Stream Chat Web App With Our New Theming API
Blog post from Stream
The new Stream Chat theming API offers a robust system for customizing chat web applications using CSS, enabling seamless integration of a chat UI with an application's overall design. This revamped API facilitates customization through a well-structured CSS variable system, allowing developers to adjust the chat UI without extensive custom code, and includes enhancements like light and dark themes and right-to-left layout support. Available with stream-chat-angular version 4 and stream-chat-react version 10, the tutorial demonstrates how to start with a standard chat UI and then customize it using SCSS, leveraging global variables for colors, typography, spacing, and other design elements. Component variables offer more granular control over specific chat components, such as avatars and message inputs, while custom CSS code can be used for more complex UI changes. The tutorial emphasizes the ease of implementing brand-specific styles and encourages experimentation with the new theming capabilities in interactive examples, providing resources for further exploration and advanced customization.