Building a chat app from scratch is a pretty daunting task. But you don’t need to start from scratch when you can get a working concept up and running in just a few minutes using Stream’s Chat API and Svelte 3. This post on the Stream blog will help to get you started.

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a chat app with Stream Chat API and Svelte 3. I’ll demonstrate how to add users to the app, how to retrieve the message history and how to send and receive messages between users.