Upgrade from v3

About version 4

Version 4 of stream-chat-angular brings a new and improved theming system. To use the new system please refer to our new theming guide.

Theme-v1

The old theme can still be used with the latest SDK versions however, you might need to update your custom CSS as some changes were introduced to theme-v1.

Updating from theme-v1 to theme-v2 will require to rewrite your custom CSS code as the new theme has a new variable system, and all the components were restructured.

Theme-v1 is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Thread layout

Previously you had to provide a selector for the message list and message input component projected inside the thread component.

<stream-thread name="thread">
  <stream-message-list
    name="thread-message-list"
    mode="thread"
  ></stream-message-list>
  <stream-message-input
    mode="thread"
    name="thread-message-input"
  ></stream-message-input>
</stream-thread>

You don’t need to provide those selectors anymore, anything inside the content part of stream-thread HTML element will be projected inside the thread component:

<stream-thread name="thread">
  <stream-message-list mode="thread"></stream-message-list>
  <stream-message-input mode="thread"></stream-message-input>
</stream-thread>

Providing the selector won’t cause a problem, but it’s unnecessary.

device-width module was removed

The device-width utility module was removed. If you rely on this code inside your chat application, you’ll have to update your code.