Add a Real-Time Database with Your React Native Chat App with Firestore

Crowdbotics Blog
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In this tutorial, the first thing you'll learn is how to use chat messages stored in a Firestore database. The second thing you're going to learn in this post is how to integrate and use react-native-gifted-chat to implement Chat UI with ease.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.crowdbotics.com/add-real-time-database-to-react-native-app-with-firestore/
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Excellent tutorial. I really enjoyed working thru it.
One update needed above:

const { thread } = route.params

needs to be moved inside the function body, as it uses the param passed in.

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Thanks for catching that. Will update the snippet.