How to Display Web Chat Notifications

Creating a chat application with real-time notifications becomes significantly easier using Stream Chat, which offers built-in capabilities to display notifications for various actions. The guide demonstrates how to set up a React-based chat application that leverages Stream Chat to notify users of new messages, using Node.js and npm for setup and Express for server-side operations. It explains how to prompt users to enable browser notifications and how to listen for message events to trigger these notifications, including changing the browser's favicon to indicate unread messages. The tutorial provides detailed instructions on integrating Stream's React components to build a responsive chat interface with features like typing indicators and emoji reactions, while also ensuring that notifications are displayed when new messages arrive. The application utilizes a random username generator to simulate multiple users and simplify the testing process, illustrating how to create a functional chat application with minimal code and highlighting the ease of extending functionality with Stream's comprehensive documentation.