# Stream Chat Dart
[](https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/stream_chat)
[](https://codecov.io/gh/GetStream/stream-chat-dart)
stream-chat-dart is the official Dart client for Stream Chat, a service for building chat applications. This library can be used on any Dart project and on both mobile and web apps with Flutter.
You can sign up for a Stream account at https://getstream.io/chat/
## Getting started
### Add dependency
```yaml
dependencies:
stream_chat: ^0.2.0
```
You should then run `flutter packages get`
## Example Project
There is a detailed Flutter example project in the `example` folder. You can directly run and play on it.
## Setup API Client
First you need to instantiate a chat client. The Chat client will manage API call, event handling and manage the websocket connection to Stream Chat servers. You should only create the client once and re-use it across your application.
```dart
final client = Client("stream-chat-api-key");
```
### Logging
By default the Chat Client will write all messages with level Warn or Error to stdout.
#### Change Logging Level
During development you might want to enable more logging information, you can change the default log level when constructing the client.
```dart
final client = Client("stream-chat-api-key", logLevel: Level.INFO);
```
#### Custom Logger
You can handle the log messages directly instead of have them written to stdout, this is very convenient if you use an error tracking tool or if you want to centralize your logs into one facility.
```dart
myLogHandlerFunction = (LogRecord record) {
// do something with the record (ie. send it to Sentry or Fabric)
}
final client = Client("stream-chat-api-key", logHandlerFunction: myLogHandlerFunction);
```
### Offline storage
By default the library saves information about channels and messages in a SQLite DB.
Set the property `persistenceEnabled` to false if you don't want to use the offline storage.
## Flutter Web
Due to Moor web (for offline storage) you need to include the sql.js library:
```html
```
You can grab the latest version of sql-wasm.js and sql-wasm.wasm [here](https://github.com/sql-js/sql.js/releases) and copy them into your `/web` folder.
## Contributing
### Code conventions
- Make sure that you run `dartfmt` before commiting your code
- Make sure all public methods and functions are well documented
### Running tests
- run `flutter test`
### Releasing a new version
- update the package version on `pubspec.yaml` and `version.dart`
- add a changelog entry on `CHANGELOG.md`
- run `flutter pub publish` to publish the package
### Watch models and generate JSON code
JSON serialization relies on code generation; make sure to keep that running while you make changes to the library
```bash
flutter pub run build_runner watch
```