# lukejacksonn/react-slack-clone

Complete chat application, built with Chatkit | by @lukejacksonn

Repository: https://github.com/lukejacksonn/react-slack-clone
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-slack-clone
Homepage: https://pusher.com/chatkit
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pusher, chatkit, chat, react
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-12-28T23:36:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3130, "days_push": 2440, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1334, forks 251 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.834461+00:00)

## What it is
A complete Slack-style real-time chat application built with React and Pusher's Chatkit SDK, demonstrating rooms, messaging, typing indicators, presence, and file attachments. It is a single-page demo app that serves as a thin UI wrapper around the pusher-chatkit-client library.

## Use cases
- build a slack-like chat app in react
- demo of real-time chat with typing indicators and presence
- learn how to integrate pusher chatkit into a react app
- example of public and private chat rooms with file uploads
- reference implementation for a chat client ui

## When to choose
- you want a reference for chat UI component structure in React
- you are studying how Chatkit-powered chat clients were built
- you need a starting point for a custom chat interface design

## When to avoid
- you need a production chat app - Chatkit was shut down by Pusher in 2020
- you need maintained, actively supported software
- you want a self-contained chat backend without external services

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: chat-interface, websocket, http-client, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, messaging-platforms, chatbots
- platform: browser
- tags: slack-clone, chatkit, pusher, real-time-chat, react, demo-app, deprecated-dependency, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- lukejacksonn/react-slack-clone (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.834461+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:44:33.949631+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lukejacksonn/react-slack-clone (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.834461+00:00, sha 1a6ba4f0e110)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.