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Part of the Projects dashboardinstalls at /projects/chat

Chat

A two-pane chat: direct messages and groups with presence, receipts and unread counts on the left, the thread by day with a composer on the right, and the open chat in the URL.

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Installs at /projects/chat. The page is a server component: it reads every chat through db.chats and every line through db.messages, names each member from db.members, and hands them to one client island; the signed-in member is the first member row, the one every chat was generated around. The open thread lives in the URL as ?chat=, so a link lands on a conversation and a preview can deep-link one: the list rows are links to it, the small-screen Back control writes it back out, and the island reads useSearchParams inside the page's Suspense boundary. Opening a thread calls markChatRead, which clears the count and marks the other side's lines read, so a reload does not bring the badge back. Sending is optimistic — the line lands in the thread at once and sendMessage writes behind it as the signed-in member, never as a field the browser sent — and a refusal takes the line back with the reason in a callout above the composer; a success is a status line beside it. Presence has no row to read, so it is drawn once from seeded("projects-chat") per member and stays put between the list and the header. New chat is a pick from the workspace that opens the dm the two already share; the sample store opens threads but does not create them, and a person with no thread yet is answered where the pick was made. Every timestamp is pinned to UTC and the day dividers are measured against REFERENCE_DATE. Composes AppShell, PageHeader, Badge, Skeleton, SplitView, SearchInput, DataList, DataListItem, Avatar, AvatarBadge, AvatarFallback, AvatarGroup, Message, MessageAvatar, MessageContent, MessageHeader, MessageFooter, Bubble, BubbleContent, MessageScrollerProvider, MessageScroller, MessageScrollerViewport, MessageScrollerContent, MessageScrollerItem, MessageScrollerButton, Textarea, AsyncButton, Button, Callout, EmptyState, Popover and Command.

Preview

Install

npx shadcn@latest add @vibra/projects-chat

Needs the @vibra registry in your components.json — set it up once.

Source

app/projects/chat/page.tsx
import * as React from "react"

import { REFERENCE_DATE } from "@/lib/sample-data"
import { AppShell } from "@/components/ui/app-shell"
import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge"
import { PageHeader } from "@/components/ui/page-header"
import { Skeleton } from "@/components/ui/skeleton"

import { signOut } from "./actions"
import { ChatView } from "./components/chat-view"
import { chatRows, chatSummary, currentUser, messageRows, people, shellNotifications } from "./data"
import { NAV, ROUTES } from "@/lib/dashboards/projects/nav"

/**
 * The chat. The page is a server component: it reads every chat and every
 * line through `db`, works out who is in each, and hands them to one client
 * island. The island reads `?chat=` to know which thread is open, so it sits
 * inside a Suspense boundary — a prerendered page that calls `useSearchParams`
 * outside one fails the build.
 */
export default function ChatPage() {
  const rows = chatRows()
  const user = currentUser()
  const unread = rows.reduce((total, chat) => total + chat.unread, 0)

  return (
    <AppShell
      nav={NAV}
      activeHref={ROUTES.chat}
      user={user}
      notifications={shellNotifications()}
      now={REFERENCE_DATE}
      onSignOut={signOut}
    >
      <PageHeader
        title="Chat"
        description="Direct messages and groups across the workspace, newest first."
        badge={unread > 0 ? <Badge variant="secondary">{unread} unread</Badge> : undefined}
        meta={chatSummary()}
      />

      <React.Suspense fallback={<Skeleton className="h-[32rem] w-full rounded-xl" />}>
        <ChatView
          chats={rows}
          messages={messageRows()}
          people={people()}
          me={{ id: user.id, name: user.name, initials: user.initials }}
          now={REFERENCE_DATE}
        />
      </React.Suspense>
    </AppShell>
  )
}
app/projects/chat/data.ts
/**
 * What this page reads. Every chat comes from `db.chats`, every line from
 * `db.messages`, and every name from `db.members`; the signed-in member is the
 * first member row, the way the entity was generated. Presence has no row to
 * read, so it is drawn once from `seeded("chat-app")` per member. The client
 * island imports only the types below — the formatters it draws with live
 * beside it in `components/chat-vocabulary.ts`, so nothing that reaches `db`
 * is ever pulled into the browser.
 */
import { getInitials } from "@/lib/format"
import { db, seeded, type Chat, type Member, type Message } from "@/lib/sample-data"

export type Presence = "online" | "away" | "offline"
export type MessageStatus = Message["status"]

export type ChatMember = { id: string; name: string; initials: string; avatarUrl?: string; presence: Presence }

export type ChatRow = {
  id: string
  kind: Chat["kind"]
  name: string
  /** Everyone in the chat but the reader. */
  members: ChatMember[]
  unread: number
  lastMessageAt: Date
  muted: boolean
  /** A dm's other person, so the row and the header can show them. */
  presence: Presence | null
  lastMessage: { text: string; fromMe: boolean; status: MessageStatus } | null
}

export type MessageRow = {
  id: string
  chatId: string
  fromId: string
  fromName: string
  fromInitials: string
  fromAvatar?: string
  fromMe: boolean
  text: string
  at: Date
  status: MessageStatus
}

/** Someone the reader can start a chat with, and the dm they already share if there is one. */
export type Person = { id: string; name: string; chatId?: string }

/** Who is who, read per call: the reader and the rest of the team as they are now. */
type Directory = {
  /** The reader: the first member of the workspace, as the chats were generated around. */
  me: Member
  members: Map<string, Member>
}

function directory(): Directory {
  const members = db.members.all()
  return { me: members[0], members: new Map(members.map((member) => [member.id, member])) }
}

let presence: Map<string, Presence> | undefined

// A seeded rule, not a row: presence is drawn once per member and stays put,
// so a face that is online in the list is online in the header too. Drawn when
// a page first asks, never when the module loads; a member who joins after
// that reads as offline.
function presenceOf(id: string): Presence {
  if (!presence) {
    const rand = seeded("chat-app")
    presence = new Map()
    for (const member of db.members.all()) {
      const draw = rand()
      presence.set(member.id, draw < 0.45 ? "online" : draw < 0.7 ? "away" : "offline")
    }
  }
  return presence.get(id) ?? "offline"
}

function toMember(id: string, { members }: Directory): ChatMember {
  const member = members.get(id)
  const name = member?.name ?? "Former teammate"
  return { id, name, initials: getInitials(name), avatarUrl: member?.avatarUrl, presence: presenceOf(id) }
}

/** One message as the thread draws it. Exported because the actions return one. */
export function toMessageRow(message: Message, team = directory()): MessageRow {
  const from = toMember(message.fromId, team)
  return {
    id: message.id,
    chatId: message.chatId,
    fromId: message.fromId,
    fromName: from.name,
    fromInitials: from.initials,
    fromAvatar: from.avatarUrl,
    fromMe: message.fromId === team.me.id,
    text: message.text,
    at: message.at,
    status: message.status,
  }
}

/** One chat as the list draws it, with the line it ended on. */
export function toChatRow(chat: Chat, team = directory()): ChatRow {
  const others = chat.memberIds.filter((id) => id !== team.me.id).map((id) => toMember(id, team))
  const last = db.messages
    .all()
    .filter((message) => message.chatId === chat.id)
    .sort((a, b) => b.at.getTime() - a.at.getTime())[0]
  return {
    id: chat.id,
    kind: chat.kind,
    name: chat.name,
    members: others,
    unread: chat.unread,
    lastMessageAt: chat.lastMessageAt,
    muted: chat.muted,
    presence: chat.kind === "dm" ? (others[0]?.presence ?? "offline") : null,
    lastMessage: last
      ? { text: last.text, fromMe: last.fromId === team.me.id, status: last.status }
      : null,
  }
}

/** Every chat the reader is in, the most recently active first. */
export function chatRows(): ChatRow[] {
  const team = directory()
  return db.chats
    .all()
    .map((chat) => toChatRow(chat, team))
    .sort((a, b) => b.lastMessageAt.getTime() - a.lastMessageAt.getTime())
}

/** Every message, oldest first; the island files them by chat. */
export function messageRows(): MessageRow[] {
  const team = directory()
  return db.messages
    .all()
    .map((message) => toMessageRow(message, team))
    .sort((a, b) => a.at.getTime() - b.at.getTime())
}

/** Everyone still in the workspace, with the dm they already share with the reader. */
export function people(): Person[] {
  const { me } = directory()
  const dms = new Map(
    db.chats
      .all()
      .filter((chat) => chat.kind === "dm")
      .map((chat) => [chat.memberIds.find((id) => id !== me.id) ?? "", chat.id])
  )
  return db.members
    .all()
    .filter((member) => member.status === "active" && member.id !== me.id)
    .map((member) => ({ id: member.id, name: member.name, ...(dms.has(member.id) ? { chatId: dms.get(member.id) } : {}) }))
    .sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name))
}

/** The line under the title: how many threads, and how many still have something unread. */
export function chatSummary(): string {
  const rows = db.chats.all()
  const unread = rows.filter((chat) => chat.unread > 0).length
  return `${rows.length} chats · ${unread} with unread messages`
}

/** The bell's contents: the newest notifications, unread first in the panel. */
export function shellNotifications() {
  return db.notifications
    .all()
    .sort((a, b) => b.at.getTime() - a.at.getTime())
    .slice(0, 6)
    .map(({ id, title, description, at, read, href }) => ({ id, title, description, at, read, href }))
}

/** The person looking at the page — the member every chat was generated around. */
export function currentUser() {
  const { me } = directory()
  return { id: me.id, name: me.name, email: me.email, initials: getInitials(me.name), avatarUrl: me.avatarUrl }
}
app/projects/chat/actions.ts
"use server"

import { mockAuthAdapter } from "@/lib/auth-adapter"
import { REFERENCE_DATE, asString, db, type Result } from "@/lib/sample-data"

import { toMessageRow, type MessageRow } from "./data"

/**
 * What this page changes. Server actions, so the page can stay a server
 * component and still hand its island something to call, and `Result` so every
 * caller reads one success-or-error shape. Who is writing is decided here —
 * the signed-in member, never a field the browser sent.
 */

export async function signOut(): Promise<Result<{ signedOut: true }>> {
  await mockAuthAdapter.signOut()
  return { ok: true, data: { signedOut: true } }
}

const MAX_LENGTH = 2_000

/** The reader, as every chat was generated around: the first member row. */
function me() {
  return db.members.all()[0]
}

/** Appends a line to a chat as the signed-in member, and marks the thread caught up. */
export async function sendMessage(chatId: string, text: string): Promise<Result<MessageRow>> {
  const body = asString(text).trim()
  if (!body) {
    return { ok: false, error: { code: "required", message: "Write a message before sending.", field: "text" } }
  }
  if (body.length > MAX_LENGTH) {
    return {
      ok: false,
      error: { code: "invalid", message: `Keep a message under ${MAX_LENGTH} characters.`, field: "text" },
    }
  }

  const chat = await db.chats.get(chatId)
  if (!chat) return { ok: false, error: { code: "not_found", message: `No chat with id "${chatId}".` } }

  const sender = me()
  if (!chat.memberIds.includes(sender.id)) {
    return { ok: false, error: { code: "not_allowed", message: `You are not in “${chat.name}”.` } }
  }

  const created = await db.messages.create({
    chatId: chat.id,
    fromId: sender.id,
    text: body,
    at: REFERENCE_DATE,
    status: "sent",
  })
  if (!created.ok) return created

  // Answering a thread is reading it: nothing in it is unread once you have
  // written back, and the list sorts it to the top.
  await db.chats.update(chat.id, { lastMessageAt: REFERENCE_DATE, unread: 0 })

  return { ok: true, data: toMessageRow(created.data) }
}

/** Opening a chat is what marks it read: the count clears, and the other side's lines are read. */
export async function markChatRead(chatId: string): Promise<Result<{ chatId: string; unread: 0 }>> {
  const chat = await db.chats.get(chatId)
  if (!chat) return { ok: false, error: { code: "not_found", message: `No chat with id "${chatId}".` } }

  const reader = me()
  const pending = db.messages
    .all()
    .filter((message) => message.chatId === chat.id && message.fromId !== reader.id && message.status !== "read")
  for (const message of pending) await db.messages.update(message.id, { status: "read" })
  if (chat.unread > 0) await db.chats.update(chat.id, { unread: 0 })

  return { ok: true, data: { chatId: chat.id, unread: 0 } }
}
app/projects/chat/components/chat-composer.tsx
"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import { PaperclipIcon, SendIcon } from "lucide-react"

import { AsyncButton } from "@/components/ui/async-button"
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import { Callout } from "@/components/ui/callout"
import { Textarea } from "@/components/ui/textarea"

export type ChatComposerProps = {
  /** Who the message goes to; the placeholder names them. */
  to: string
  /** Which thread the draft belongs to: a new one starts blank. */
  chatId: string
  error: string | null
  notice: string | null
  sending: boolean
  /** Resolves true when the message was accepted; the draft only clears then. */
  onSend: (text: string) => Promise<boolean>
  onNotice: (message: string) => void
}

/**
 * The box under the thread. Enter sends and Shift+Enter breaks a line, the way
 * every chat client reads; the draft survives a refusal so it can be fixed and
 * sent, and a refusal is a callout right above the box that asked.
 */
export function ChatComposer({ to, chatId, error, notice, sending, onSend, onNotice }: ChatComposerProps) {
  const [draft, setDraft] = React.useState("")

  // A new thread is a new conversation: the half-written line to the last one
  // does not belong in it.
  const [lastId, setLastId] = React.useState(chatId)
  if (chatId !== lastId) {
    setLastId(chatId)
    setDraft("")
  }

  // One draft, once: Enter and the button both come through here, and a send
  // still in flight swallows the second press rather than sending twice.
  async function submit() {
    if (sending) return
    if (await onSend(draft)) setDraft("")
  }

  return (
    <form
      className="flex shrink-0 flex-col gap-2 border-t p-3"
      onSubmit={(event) => {
        event.preventDefault()
        void submit()
      }}
    >
      {error ? (
        <Callout variant="danger" role="alert" title="Not sent">
          {error}
        </Callout>
      ) : null}
      <div className="flex items-end gap-2">
        <Button
          type="button"
          variant="ghost"
          size="icon"
          aria-label="Attach a file"
          className="shrink-0 text-muted-foreground"
          onClick={() => onNotice("Attachments need a file store; none is wired up in the sample.")}
        >
          <PaperclipIcon aria-hidden="true" />
        </Button>
        <Textarea
          aria-label="Message"
          rows={2}
          value={draft}
          placeholder={`Message ${to}…`}
          onChange={(event) => setDraft(event.target.value)}
          onKeyDown={(event) => {
            if (event.key === "Enter" && !event.shiftKey && !event.nativeEvent.isComposing) {
              event.preventDefault()
              void submit()
            }
          }}
          className="min-h-9 flex-1 resize-none"
        />
        <AsyncButton type="submit" size="sm" loading={sending} loadingText="Sending" className="shrink-0">
          <SendIcon data-icon="inline-start" aria-hidden="true" />
          Send
        </AsyncButton>
      </div>
      <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-between gap-2 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
        <p>Enter to send · Shift+Enter for a new line</p>
        <p role="status" aria-live="polite" className="min-h-4 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
          {notice}
        </p>
      </div>
    </form>
  )
}
app/projects/chat/components/chat-list.tsx
"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import Link from "next/link"
import { BellOffIcon } from "lucide-react"

import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"
import { Avatar, AvatarBadge, AvatarFallback, AvatarImage } from "@/components/ui/avatar"
import { AvatarGroup } from "@/components/ui/avatar-group"
import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge"
import { DataList, DataListItem } from "@/components/ui/data-list"
import { EmptyState } from "@/components/ui/empty-state"
import { SearchInput } from "@/components/ui/search-input"

import { type ChatRow, type Person } from "../data"
import { PRESENCE_DOT, PRESENCE_LABEL, since } from "./chat-vocabulary"
import { NewChat } from "./new-chat"
import { Receipt } from "./receipt"

export type ChatListProps = {
  chats: ChatRow[]
  people: Person[]
  selectedId: string | null
  now: Date
  hrefFor: (chatId: string) => string
  onOpen: (chatId: string) => void
}

/** The master pane: the heading and the new-chat control, the search, then every chat that matches it. */
export function ChatList({ chats, people, selectedId, now, hrefFor, onOpen }: ChatListProps) {
  const [query, setQuery] = React.useState("")
  const needle = query.trim().toLowerCase()
  const visible = needle ? chats.filter((chat) => chat.name.toLowerCase().includes(needle)) : chats

  return (
    <section aria-label="Chats" className="flex h-full min-h-0 flex-col">
      <div className="flex shrink-0 flex-col gap-2 border-b p-3">
        <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
          <h2 className="text-base leading-6 font-semibold">Chats</h2>
          <NewChat people={people} onOpen={onOpen} />
        </div>
        <SearchInput
          size="sm"
          aria-label="Search chats"
          placeholder="Search chats"
          value={query}
          onValueChange={setQuery}
          debounce={150}
        />
      </div>

      <div className="min-h-0 flex-1 overflow-y-auto">
        {visible.length === 0 ? (
          <EmptyState size="sm" title="No chat matches" description="Try another name." />
        ) : (
          <DataList divided>
            {visible.map((chat) => (
              <DataListItem
                key={chat.id}
                href={hrefFor(chat.id)}
                renderLink={(href, linkProps) => <Link {...linkProps} href={href} scroll={false} />}
                selected={chat.id === selectedId}
                className="items-center py-2.5"
                leading={
                  chat.kind === "group" ? (
                    <AvatarGroup size="sm" max={3} users={chat.members.map((member) => ({ name: member.name, src: member.avatarUrl }))} />
                  ) : (
                    <Avatar>
                      {chat.members[0]?.avatarUrl ? <AvatarImage src={chat.members[0].avatarUrl} alt="" /> : null}
                      <AvatarFallback className="text-xs">{chat.members[0]?.initials ?? "?"}</AvatarFallback>
                      {chat.presence ? (
                        <AvatarBadge aria-hidden="true" className={PRESENCE_DOT[chat.presence]} />
                      ) : null}
                    </Avatar>
                  )
                }
                title={
                  <span className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
                    <span className={cn("truncate", chat.unread === 0 && "font-normal")}>{chat.name}</span>
                    {chat.presence ? <span className="sr-only">, {PRESENCE_LABEL[chat.presence]}</span> : null}
                    {chat.muted ? (
                      <>
                        <BellOffIcon aria-hidden="true" className="size-3 shrink-0 text-faint-foreground" />
                        <span className="sr-only">, muted</span>
                      </>
                    ) : null}
                  </span>
                }
                description={
                  chat.lastMessage ? (
                    <span className="flex items-center gap-1">
                      {chat.lastMessage.fromMe ? <Receipt status={chat.lastMessage.status} /> : null}
                      <span className="truncate">
                        {chat.lastMessage.fromMe ? "You: " : ""}
                        {chat.lastMessage.text}
                      </span>
                    </span>
                  ) : (
                    "No messages yet"
                  )
                }
                meta={
                  <span className="flex flex-col items-end gap-1">
                    <span className={cn(chat.unread > 0 && "font-medium text-foreground")}>
                      {since(chat.lastMessageAt, now)}
                    </span>
                    {chat.unread > 0 ? (
                      <Badge className="h-4.5 min-w-4.5 px-1.5 text-2xs tabular-nums">
                        <span aria-hidden="true">{chat.unread}</span>
                        <span className="sr-only">{chat.unread} unread</span>
                      </Badge>
                    ) : null}
                  </span>
                }
              />
            ))}
          </DataList>
        )}
      </div>
    </section>
  )
}
app/projects/chat/components/chat-thread.tsx
"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import { InfoIcon, PhoneIcon } from "lucide-react"

import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"
import { Avatar, AvatarBadge, AvatarFallback, AvatarImage } from "@/components/ui/avatar"
import { AvatarGroup } from "@/components/ui/avatar-group"
import { Bubble, BubbleContent } from "@/components/ui/bubble"
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import {
  Message,
  MessageAvatar,
  MessageContent,
  MessageFooter,
  MessageHeader,
} from "@/components/ui/message"
import {
  MessageScroller,
  MessageScrollerButton,
  MessageScrollerContent,
  MessageScrollerItem,
  MessageScrollerProvider,
  MessageScrollerViewport,
} from "@/components/ui/message-scroller"

import { type ChatRow, type MessageRow } from "../data"
import { PRESENCE_DOT, PRESENCE_LABEL, RECEIPT_LABEL, clockTime, dayLabel, dayOf } from "./chat-vocabulary"
import { Receipt } from "./receipt"

export type ChatThreadProps = {
  chat: ChatRow
  messages: MessageRow[]
  now: Date
  onNotice: (message: string) => void
  /** The composer, which the island owns because it owns the send. */
  composer: React.ReactNode
}

/** The thread's lines, filed under the day each was written on. */
function byDay(messages: MessageRow[]): { day: number; messages: MessageRow[] }[] {
  const groups: { day: number; messages: MessageRow[] }[] = []
  for (const message of messages) {
    const day = dayOf(message.at)
    const last = groups[groups.length - 1]
    if (last && last.day === day) last.messages.push(message)
    else groups.push({ day, messages: [message] })
  }
  return groups
}

/**
 * The detail pane: who the thread is with, what was said day by day, and the
 * box that answers it. Each line is the kit's Bubble inside the kit's Message:
 * ours sit on the right in the accent, theirs on the left on the muted plane,
 * and a receipt under each of ours says how far it got.
 */
export function ChatThread({ chat, messages, now, onNotice, composer }: ChatThreadProps) {
  const [details, setDetails] = React.useState(false)
  const isGroup = chat.kind === "group"

  return (
    <div className="flex h-full min-h-0 flex-col">
      <header className="flex shrink-0 flex-col gap-2 border-b p-3">
        <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
          {isGroup ? (
            <AvatarGroup size="sm" max={3} users={chat.members.map((member) => ({ name: member.name, src: member.avatarUrl }))} />
          ) : (
            <Avatar>
              {chat.members[0]?.avatarUrl ? <AvatarImage src={chat.members[0].avatarUrl} alt="" /> : null}
              <AvatarFallback className="text-xs">{chat.members[0]?.initials ?? "?"}</AvatarFallback>
              {chat.presence ? <AvatarBadge aria-hidden="true" className={PRESENCE_DOT[chat.presence]} /> : null}
            </Avatar>
          )}
          <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col">
            <h2 className="truncate text-sm leading-5 font-semibold">{chat.name}</h2>
            <p className="truncate text-xs text-muted-foreground">
              {isGroup
                ? `${chat.members.length + 1} members`
                : chat.presence
                  ? PRESENCE_LABEL[chat.presence]
                  : "Direct message"}
            </p>
          </div>
          <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center gap-1">
            <Button
              type="button"
              variant="ghost"
              size="icon-sm"
              aria-label="Call"
              onClick={() => onNotice("Calls need a telephony provider; none is wired up in the sample.")}
            >
              <PhoneIcon aria-hidden="true" />
            </Button>
            <Button
              type="button"
              variant="ghost"
              size="icon-sm"
              aria-label="Details"
              aria-pressed={details}
              onClick={() => setDetails((current) => !current)}
            >
              <InfoIcon aria-hidden="true" />
            </Button>
          </div>
        </div>
        {details ? (
          <dl className="grid grid-cols-[auto_minmax(0,1fr)] gap-x-3 gap-y-1 text-xs">
            <dt className="text-muted-foreground">Members</dt>
            <dd className="flex flex-wrap gap-x-3 gap-y-1">
              {chat.members.map((member) => (
                <span key={member.id} className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5">
                  <span aria-hidden="true" className={cn("size-1.5 rounded-full", PRESENCE_DOT[member.presence])} />
                  {member.name}
                  <span className="sr-only">, {PRESENCE_LABEL[member.presence]}</span>
                </span>
              ))}
            </dd>
            <dt className="text-muted-foreground">Notifications</dt>
            <dd>{chat.muted ? "Muted" : "On"}</dd>
            <dt className="text-muted-foreground">Times</dt>
            <dd>UTC</dd>
          </dl>
        ) : null}
      </header>

      <MessageScrollerProvider defaultScrollPosition="end">
        <MessageScroller className="min-h-0 flex-1">
          <MessageScrollerViewport aria-label={`Messages with ${chat.name}`} className="px-3">
            <MessageScrollerContent aria-label={`Conversation with ${chat.name}`} className="gap-3 py-3">
              {byDay(messages).map((group) => (
                <React.Fragment key={group.day}>
                  <div
                    role="separator"
                    aria-label={dayLabel(group.day, now)}
                    className="flex items-center gap-3 py-1 text-2xs font-medium text-faint-foreground"
                  >
                    <span aria-hidden="true" className="h-px flex-1 bg-border" />
                    {dayLabel(group.day, now)}
                    <span aria-hidden="true" className="h-px flex-1 bg-border" />
                  </div>
                  {group.messages.map((message) => (
                    <MessageScrollerItem key={message.id} messageId={message.id}>
                      <Message align={message.fromMe ? "end" : "start"}>
                        {!message.fromMe && isGroup ? (
                          <MessageAvatar className="min-w-7">
                            <Avatar size="sm">
                              {message.fromAvatar ? <AvatarImage src={message.fromAvatar} alt="" /> : null}
                              <AvatarFallback className="text-2xs">{message.fromInitials}</AvatarFallback>
                            </Avatar>
                          </MessageAvatar>
                        ) : null}
                        <MessageContent className="gap-1">
                          {!message.fromMe && isGroup ? (
                            <MessageHeader>{message.fromName}</MessageHeader>
                          ) : null}
                          <Bubble
                            variant={message.fromMe ? "default" : "muted"}
                            align={message.fromMe ? "end" : "start"}
                          >
                            <BubbleContent>{message.text}</BubbleContent>
                          </Bubble>
                          <MessageFooter className="gap-1 font-normal">
                            <time dateTime={message.at.toISOString()} className="tabular-nums">
                              {clockTime.format(message.at)}
                            </time>
                            {message.fromMe ? (
                              <>
                                <Receipt status={message.status} />
                                <span className="sr-only">{RECEIPT_LABEL[message.status]}</span>
                              </>
                            ) : null}
                          </MessageFooter>
                        </MessageContent>
                      </Message>
                    </MessageScrollerItem>
                  ))}
                </React.Fragment>
              ))}
            </MessageScrollerContent>
          </MessageScrollerViewport>
          <MessageScrollerButton />
        </MessageScroller>
      </MessageScrollerProvider>

      {composer}
    </div>
  )
}
app/projects/chat/components/chat-view.tsx
"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import { usePathname, useRouter, useSearchParams } from "next/navigation"
import { MessageCircleIcon } from "lucide-react"

import { EmptyState } from "@/components/ui/empty-state"
import { SplitView } from "@/components/ui/split-view"

import { markChatRead, sendMessage } from "../actions"
import { type ChatRow, type MessageRow, type Person } from "../data"
import { ChatComposer } from "./chat-composer"
import { ChatList } from "./chat-list"
import { ChatThread } from "./chat-thread"
import { NewChat } from "./new-chat"

export type ChatViewProps = {
  chats: ChatRow[]
  messages: MessageRow[]
  people: Person[]
  me: { id: string; name: string; initials: string; avatarUrl?: string }
  /** The page's reference instant, which every "today" and "3d" is measured against. */
  now: Date
}

/**
 * The chat. The open thread lives in the URL — `?chat=` — so a link lands on
 * a conversation and a preview can deep-link one; the list rows are links to
 * it, and the small-screen Back control writes it back out. Opening a thread
 * marks it read. Sending is optimistic: the line lands in the thread at once,
 * the action writes behind it, and a refusal takes the line back and says why
 * above the box that asked.
 */
export function ChatView({ chats, messages, people, me, now }: ChatViewProps) {
  const router = useRouter()
  const pathname = usePathname()
  const params = useSearchParams()
  const chatId = params.get("chat")

  const [rows, setRows] = React.useState(chats)
  const [lines, setLines] = React.useState(messages)
  const [error, setError] = React.useState<string | null>(null)
  const [notice, setNotice] = React.useState<string | null>(null)
  const [sending, setSending] = React.useState(false)

  // A refusal or a receipt was written under one chat's composer and belongs
  // to it: the rows are links, so the thread changes under the island without
  // open() being called, and the state is cleared against the id it was
  // written for rather than in an effect — a "Sent to Priya" must never sit
  // under Marcus's box, not even for a frame.
  const [noticedFor, setNoticedFor] = React.useState(chatId)
  if (noticedFor !== chatId) {
    setNoticedFor(chatId)
    setError(null)
    setNotice(null)
  }

  const selected = rows.find((chat) => chat.id === chatId) ?? null
  const thread = selected ? lines.filter((line) => line.chatId === selected.id) : []

  // The current query with `chat` swapped, so a preview's own settings — the
  // mode, the palette — ride along with the thread that is opened.
  const hrefFor = React.useCallback(
    (id: string | null) => {
      const query = new URLSearchParams(params.toString())
      if (id) query.set("chat", id)
      else query.delete("chat")
      const search = query.toString()
      return search ? `${pathname}?${search}` : pathname
    },
    [params, pathname]
  )

  const open = React.useCallback(
    (id: string | null) => router.replace(hrefFor(id), { scroll: false }),
    [router, hrefFor]
  )

  // Opening a thread is what marks it read: the count clears in the list, and
  // the store agrees, so a reload does not bring the badge back.
  const selectedId = selected?.id ?? null
  const selectedUnread = selected?.unread ?? 0
  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (!selectedId || selectedUnread === 0) return
    let cancelled = false
    void markChatRead(selectedId).then((result) => {
      if (cancelled) return
      if (!result.ok) {
        // Nothing the reader did, but rule 9 still holds: the refusal lands in
        // the composer's callout, where the reader is looking.
        setNotice(null)
        setError(result.error.message)
        return
      }
      setRows((current) =>
        current.map((chat) => (chat.id === result.data.chatId ? { ...chat, unread: 0 } : chat))
      )
      setLines((current) =>
        current.map((line) =>
          line.chatId === result.data.chatId && !line.fromMe && line.status !== "read"
            ? { ...line, status: "read" }
            : line
        )
      )
    })
    return () => {
      cancelled = true
    }
  }, [selectedId, selectedUnread])

  async function send(text: string): Promise<boolean> {
    if (!selected || sending) return false
    const body = text.trim()
    if (!body) {
      setNotice(null)
      setError("Write a message before sending.")
      return false
    }

    // The line lands at once, timed by the thread it joins until the action
    // says when it was accepted; a refusal takes it back.
    const pendingId = `pending-${selected.id}-${thread.length + 1}`
    const pending: MessageRow = {
      id: pendingId,
      chatId: selected.id,
      fromId: me.id,
      fromName: me.name,
      fromInitials: me.initials,
      fromAvatar: me.avatarUrl,
      fromMe: true,
      text: body,
      at: selected.lastMessageAt,
      status: "sent",
    }
    setError(null)
    setNotice(null)
    setSending(true)
    setLines((current) => [...current, pending])

    const result = await sendMessage(selected.id, body)
    setSending(false)

    if (!result.ok) {
      setLines((current) => current.filter((line) => line.id !== pendingId))
      setError(result.error.message)
      return false
    }

    setLines((current) => current.map((line) => (line.id === pendingId ? result.data : line)))
    setRows((current) =>
      current
        .map((chat) =>
          chat.id === result.data.chatId
            ? {
                ...chat,
                unread: 0,
                lastMessageAt: result.data.at,
                lastMessage: { text: result.data.text, fromMe: true, status: result.data.status },
              }
            : chat
        )
        .sort((a, b) => b.lastMessageAt.getTime() - a.lastMessageAt.getTime())
    )
    setNotice(`Sent to ${selected.name}.`)
    return true
  }

  function noticed(message: string) {
    setError(null)
    setNotice(message)
  }

  return (
    // A fixed frame rather than a growing one: the two panes scroll inside the
    // page, the way a chat client does, instead of the page scrolling.
    <div className="h-[calc(100svh-15rem)] min-h-[32rem] overflow-hidden panel">
      <SplitView
        defaultSize={34}
        minSize={26}
        maxSize={48}
        showDetail={selected !== null}
        onBack={() => open(null)}
        list={
          <ChatList
            chats={rows}
            people={people}
            selectedId={selectedId}
            now={now}
            hrefFor={hrefFor}
            onOpen={open}
          />
        }
        detail={
          selected ? (
            <ChatThread
              chat={selected}
              messages={thread}
              now={now}
              onNotice={noticed}
              composer={
                <ChatComposer
                  to={selected.name}
                  chatId={selected.id}
                  error={error}
                  notice={notice}
                  sending={sending}
                  onSend={send}
                  onNotice={noticed}
                />
              }
            />
          ) : (
            <div className="flex h-full items-center justify-center p-6">
              <EmptyState
                icon={<MessageCircleIcon />}
                title="No chat selected"
                description="Pick a conversation on the left to read it and reply, or start a new one with someone in the workspace."
                action={<NewChat people={people} onOpen={open} variant="primary" />}
              />
            </div>
          )
        }
      />
    </div>
  )
}
app/projects/chat/components/chat-vocabulary.ts
import { type MessageStatus, type Presence } from "../data"

/**
 * How the chat is drawn, as the reader sees it: the words and tones for
 * presence, the receipts, and the formatters. Vocabulary, not data — it lives
 * beside the island rather than in `data.ts`, which reads `db` and must never
 * reach the browser.
 */
export const PRESENCE_LABEL: Record<Presence, string> = {
  online: "Online",
  away: "Away",
  offline: "Offline",
}

/** The dot on an avatar, in the presence's tone. */
export const PRESENCE_DOT: Record<Presence, string> = {
  online: "bg-success",
  away: "bg-warning",
  offline: "bg-muted-foreground",
}

/** What a receipt says under one of the reader's own messages. */
export const RECEIPT_LABEL: Record<MessageStatus, string> = {
  sent: "Sent",
  delivered: "Delivered",
  read: "Read",
}

const DAY_MS = 86_400_000

/**
 * Every timestamp on this page is an instant, pinned to UTC: a message sent
 * late in the day would otherwise be dated differently either side of
 * Greenwich, and the list and the thread could disagree about which day it was.
 */
export const clockTime = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
  hour: "numeric",
  minute: "2-digit",
  timeZone: "UTC",
})

const shortDay = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
  month: "short",
  day: "numeric",
  timeZone: "UTC",
})

const longDay = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
  weekday: "long",
  month: "long",
  day: "numeric",
  timeZone: "UTC",
})

/** Midnight UTC on the day an instant falls on. */
export function dayOf(at: Date): number {
  return Date.UTC(at.getUTCFullYear(), at.getUTCMonth(), at.getUTCDate())
}

/**
 * When a thread last moved, measured against `now` — the page's reference
 * instant, never a clock: a time today, a weekday word this week, a date
 * beyond it.
 */
export function since(at: Date, now: Date): string {
  const days = (dayOf(now) - dayOf(at)) / DAY_MS
  if (days === 0) return clockTime.format(at)
  if (days === 1) return "Yesterday"
  if (days < 7) return `${days}d`
  return shortDay.format(at)
}

/** The divider a day of messages sits under: Today, Yesterday, or the date. */
export function dayLabel(day: number, now: Date): string {
  const days = (dayOf(now) - day) / DAY_MS
  if (days === 0) return "Today"
  if (days === 1) return "Yesterday"
  return longDay.format(new Date(day))
}
app/projects/chat/components/new-chat.tsx
"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import { MessageSquarePlusIcon } from "lucide-react"

import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import { Callout } from "@/components/ui/callout"
import {
  Command,
  CommandEmpty,
  CommandGroup,
  CommandInput,
  CommandItem,
  CommandList,
} from "@/components/ui/command"
import { Popover, PopoverContent, PopoverTrigger } from "@/components/ui/popover"

import { type Person } from "../data"

export type NewChatProps = {
  people: Person[]
  /** Opens the chat with this id: the island writes it to the URL. */
  onOpen: (chatId: string) => void
  /** The empty state's primary button, in place of the list's icon button. */
  variant?: "icon" | "primary"
}

/**
 * "New chat" is a pick, not a form: the workspace is who the reader can write
 * to, and the dm they already share is where the conversation goes. The sample
 * store opens threads but does not create them, so a person with no thread yet
 * is answered where the pick was made rather than with a chat that would
 * vanish on reload.
 */
export function NewChat({ people, onOpen, variant = "icon" }: NewChatProps) {
  const [open, setOpen] = React.useState(false)
  const [refusal, setRefusal] = React.useState<string | null>(null)

  function pick(person: Person) {
    if (person.chatId) {
      setRefusal(null)
      setOpen(false)
      onOpen(person.chatId)
      return
    }
    setRefusal(
      `No thread with ${person.name} yet. The sample opens the chats it has; creating one needs a store behind createChat.`
    )
  }

  return (
    <Popover
      open={open}
      onOpenChange={(next) => {
        setOpen(next)
        if (!next) setRefusal(null)
      }}
    >
      <PopoverTrigger
        render={
          variant === "primary" ? (
            <Button>
              <MessageSquarePlusIcon data-icon="inline-start" aria-hidden="true" />
              Start new chat
            </Button>
          ) : (
            <Button variant="outline" size="icon-sm" aria-label="New chat">
              <MessageSquarePlusIcon aria-hidden="true" />
            </Button>
          )
        }
      />
      <PopoverContent align={variant === "primary" ? "center" : "end"} className="w-72 gap-0 p-0">
        <Command>
          <CommandInput placeholder="Message someone…" />
          <CommandList aria-label="People">
            <CommandEmpty>Nobody by that name.</CommandEmpty>
            <CommandGroup heading="Workspace">
              {people.map((person) => (
                <CommandItem key={person.id} value={person.name} onSelect={() => pick(person)}>
                  <span className="truncate">{person.name}</span>
                  {/* A hint for the eye; the pick itself says why when it cannot open. */}
                  {person.chatId ? null : (
                    <span aria-hidden="true" className="ml-auto text-2xs text-faint-foreground">
                      no thread
                    </span>
                  )}
                </CommandItem>
              ))}
            </CommandGroup>
          </CommandList>
        </Command>
        {refusal ? (
          <div className="border-t p-2">
            <Callout variant="danger" role="alert" className="text-xs">
              {refusal}
            </Callout>
          </div>
        ) : null}
      </PopoverContent>
    </Popover>
  )
}
app/projects/chat/components/receipt.tsx
import { CheckCheckIcon, CheckIcon } from "lucide-react"

import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"

import { type MessageStatus } from "../data"

/**
 * The tick or ticks under a line the reader wrote: one for sent, two for
 * delivered, two in ink for read. Decorative — the word travels beside it as
 * sr-only text in both panes — so the list and the thread draw one receipt.
 */
export function Receipt({ status, className }: { status: MessageStatus; className?: string }) {
  const Icon = status === "sent" ? CheckIcon : CheckCheckIcon
  return (
    <Icon
      data-slot="receipt"
      data-status={status}
      aria-hidden="true"
      className={cn("size-3.5 shrink-0", status === "read" ? "text-info" : "text-muted-foreground", className)}
    />
  )
}