Moments SDK

Moments allows you to open any web apps right in the chat window. From a developer point of view, it’s an embedded website in iframe which is shown during a chat. Click here to read more.

How to start

You should start by preparing your first Moment app. You can use one of our examples or use our bootstrap project build on Glitch platform - it’s ready to publish, integrated with Moments SDK and easy to fork and adjust to own needs.

Install

To simply get started with creating your moments app add @livechat/moments-sdk as dependency to your project:

npm install @livechat/moments-sdk

and then import createMomentsSDK function which is exported as default from package.

import createMomentsSDK from "@livechat/moments-sdk";

Methods

createMomentsSDK

Initialized method for the Moments SDK. You can pass additional properties:

• title - Application title, will be placed on Moment’s titlebar
• icon - URL to Application icon, will be placed on Moments title bar

import createMomentsSDK from "@livechat/moments-sdk";
createMomentsSDK({ title: "My App" }).then(momentsSDK => {
  // your code
});

sendMessage

Sends a message as a visitor in currently active chat. Parameters:

• text - Message text

momentsSDK.sendMessage({ text: "Chosen date: 19.12.2009" });

setAttributes

Set customer’s properties. Parameters:

• customProperties - customer’s additional data object

momentsSDK.setAttributes({ clientId: "SJ3CJ6JVNMK42A", source: "Organic" });

close

Close Moment app.

This method has no parameters.

momentsSDK.close();