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@ably/chat

Ably Chat is a set of purpose-built APIs for a host of chat features enabling you to create 1:1, 1:Many, Many:1 and Many:Many chat rooms for any scale. It is designed to meet a wide range of chat use cases, such as livestreams, in-game communication, cust

v1.4.0, 1 Jun 2026Apache-2.0ESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledWebSockets and realtime
$ npm install @ably/chat

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
354.8k
- over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
3
Direct, from package.json
Last release
3 months ago
v1.4.0
GitHub stars
23
5 forks
Open issues / PRs
2 / 11
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
205

No weekly download data in the snapshot.

354,765 downloads last week, 1,730,548 in the last month. No 52-week series has been fetched yet.

Releases, last 12 months
1026 in total
Latest version
1.4.0, 1 Jun 20263 months ago
First published
10 Jul 2024
Last push to GitHub
17 Sept 20267 days before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
2
Open pull requests
11
Commits, last 52 weeks
205
Dependents on npm
3

Major versions

  1. v1 first release 1.0.0, 23 Oct 2025
  2. v0 first release 0.1.0, 10 Jul 2024

Recent releases

VersionPublished
1.4.01 Jun 2026
1.3.126 Mar 2026
1.3.03 Mar 2026
1.2.024 Feb 2026
1.1.114 Nov 2025
1.1.030 Oct 2025
1.0.023 Oct 2025
0.15.020 Oct 2025
0.14.13 Oct 2025
0.14.029 Sept 2025
0.13.017 Sept 2025
0.12.08 Sept 2025
0.11.024 Jul 2025
0.10.09 Jul 2025
Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=20.0.0
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
3.3 MB
Dependencies (3)
dequalasync-mutexlodash.clonedeep
Peer dependencies (3)
ablyreactreact-dom
npm install @ably/chat
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@ably/chat@1.4.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/@ably/chat@1.4.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/@ably/chat@1.4.0
Sources: npm registry, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.