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CometChat launches compact rich-text composer
CometChat’s Compact Message Composer is a chat input component for adding richer message composition with minimal integration work. It supports rich text formatting, attachments, mentions, emoji, stickers, voice recording, and configurable toolbar behavior, including a floating selection toolbar on desktop or a fixed toolbar above the input. The component is meant to drop into CometChat UI Kits and ship a more polished messaging experience through a single feature flag-style setup.
// ANALYSIS
Hot take: this is less about “a new composer” and more about turning rich chat input into a commodity for app teams that do not want to build editor behavior from scratch.
- –The biggest value is the toggleable rich-text layer: teams can keep the default compact input and enable formatting only when needed.
- –The toolbar behavior is flexible enough to fit different UX styles, but the mobile fallback is sensible and avoids touch-target clutter.
- –The component is strongest for products already using CometChat UI Kits; it is an incremental upgrade, not a standalone differentiated product.
- –The feature set is practical rather than flashy: shortcuts, mentions, attachments, and voice recording are the kind of details that save engineering time.
// TAGS
messagingchat-uirich-textdevtoolui-kitreactsdk
DISCOVERED
3h ago
2026-04-29
PUBLISHED
8h ago
2026-04-29
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
[REDACTED]