matrix-react-sdk ================ This is a react-based SDK for inserting a Matrix chat client into a web page Getting started with the trivial example ======================================== 1. Install or update `node.js` so that your `npm` is at least at version `2.0.0` 2. Clone the repo: `git clone https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk.git` 3. Switch to the example directory: `cd matrix-react-sdk/examples/trivial` 4. Install the prerequisites: `npm install` 5. Build the example and start a server: `npm start` Now open http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in your browser to see your newly built Matrix client. Using the example app for development ===================================== To work on the CSS and Javascript and have the bundle files update as you change the source files, you'll need to do two extra things: 1. Link the react sdk package into the example: `cd matrix-react-sdk/examples/trivial; npm link ../../` 2. Start a watcher for the CSS files: `cd matrix-react-sdk; npm run start:css` Note that you may need to restart the CSS builder if you add a new file. Note that `npm start` builds debug versions of the the javascript and CSS, which are much larger than the production versions build by the `npm run build` commands. IMPORTANT: If you customise components in your application (and hence require react from your app) you must be sure to: 1. Make your app depend on react directly 2. If you `npm link` matrix-react-sdk, manually remove the 'react' directory from matrix-react-sdk's `node_modules` folder, otherwise browserify will pull in both copies of react which causes the app to break.