How To Build A Facebook Messenger Clone
Blog post from Stream
A developer-focused guide sponsored by Stream on the Web Dev Simplified YouTube channel offers a tutorial on building a Messenger-style chat application using Stream's React Chat SDK. In just ninety minutes, the video demonstrates how to create a robust and feature-rich app with real-time chat capabilities similar to Facebook Messenger, including features like emojis, reactions, GIFs, rich URLs, threads, and replies. The tutorial emphasizes the ease of implementing these features with minimal code, providing users with an experience akin to their favorite social media platforms while maintaining enterprise-level reliability and scalability. Viewers are encouraged to activate a free 30-day Stream chat trial to follow along and build their own app, with the assurance that Stream will handle the complex aspects of chat functionality.