Overview

Best Practices

Here’s an overview of guides with best practices

• Livestreaming best practices
• Marketplace apps best practices
• GDPR endpoints
• Migrating data

Launching Quickly

Stream provides a low level client, offline support and UI components. This means that you can build any type of chat or messaging UI.

A few tips for launching quickly

• Start with a quick tutorial for each SDK team
• Integrate into your app while using most of the default UI components
• Start customizing/ building your own UI components

We’ve seen customers integrate in as little as a few days. Though for enterprise customers it’s common to take a month.

Generating Test Data

While developing with Stream Chat, you might want to see how your app handles data from several users. You can do this by generating mock data for your application.

The easiest way to generate mock data is to use the Data Generator. When you enter your api key, secret, and username, the generator will create a randomized data set for your app. This will include a set of random users, channels, and messages.