v4.3.0

v4.3.0

Released: 2026-05-29

New

• Added Visual Builder integration across React, React Native, native Android, native iOS, and Flutter workflows. The /cometchat add chat to my app flow now offers a choice between visual customization in the CometChat dashboard or code-driven setup directly in the IDE.
• Added browser-driven Visual Builder workflows that automatically create builder instances, open the dashboard editor, fetch generated configuration data, and emit production-ready integrations directly into existing projects without requiring manual ZIP downloads or file copying.
• Added platform-specific Visual Builder integration recipes for React, React Native, Android V6, Flutter V6, and iOS applications using canonical builder application structures and verified configuration patterns.
• Added the cometchat builder create, cometchat builder fetch, and cometchat builder list CLI commands for managing Visual Builder instances directly from the terminal.
• Added cometchat verify --builder to validate Visual Builder integrations across supported platforms, including settings files, wrapper components, dependency wiring, and generated application structure checks.
• Added support for re-syncing existing Visual Builder integrations through the /cometchat iteration flow, allowing updated dashboard customizations to be pulled into existing applications without overwriting user-modified files.
• Added canonical Visual Builder integration guidance across core skills for React, React Native, Android, Flutter, and iOS platforms.
• Added end-to-end smoke-test coverage for Visual Builder integrations across React, React Native, Android V6, and Flutter V6 workflows.

Enhancements

• Improved Angular onboarding flows by detecting unsupported Visual Builder scenarios and automatically falling back to code-driven integrations with explicit guidance.
• Improved configuration persistence by adding product and customize keys to .cometchat/config.json, allowing reruns to skip repeated setup prompts.
• Improved dispatcher reliability by documenting and handling Visual Builder edge cases including expired builders, missing permissions, browser launch failures, stale configuration state, and active-builder conflicts.
• Improved React Router v7 and Vite 7 compatibility by updating generated integrations to use type-safe import patterns compatible with Rolldown-based builds.
• Improved Next.js compatibility by detecting unsupported Pages Router CSS-import patterns before emitting invalid integrations.
• Improved Flutter V6 integration support by updating Visual Builder and calls workflows to use the stable 6.0.1 release instead of earlier beta builds.
• Improved feature-removal workflows by extending cometchat apply-feature --remove support across all supported feature categories.
• Improved Windows installation reliability by hardening npx process spawning behavior for environments where .cmd and PowerShell wrappers fail.
• Improved React Native calls integration by wiring incoming, outgoing, and ongoing call surfaces across both SDK socket listeners and UI event channels.
• Improved React Native installation guidance by documenting additional required peer dependencies for calls SDK polyfills and runtime compatibility.

Fixes

• Fixed Visual Builder initialization failures caused by existing active builders on the same app. Builder creation now reuses active builders automatically unless --force is specified.
• Fixed Android Visual Builder integrations where missing JSON envelope wrappers caused generated CometChatBuilderSettings classes to compile without required constants.
• Fixed iOS, Android, and Flutter Visual Builder integrations that silently fell back to default configurations when settings files omitted the required { builderId, name, settings } envelope structure.
• Fixed missing dashboard API response fields for chatFeatures.inAppSounds and chatFeatures.deeperUserEngagement.mentionAll by injecting safe defaults during settings generation.
• Fixed Vite 7 and newer TypeScript build failures caused by stricter compiler defaults in generated React integrations.
• Fixed React integrations that failed when package.json omitted the required cometChatCustomConfig block expected by the canonical builder context.
• Fixed incorrect useConfig selector examples in React Native guidance that referenced a non-existent .config wrapper in the application state shape.
• Fixed false-positive validation failures in verify --builder for valid dependency graphs, settings formats, Android View-based integrations, Flutter settings paths, and alternate Flutter initialization patterns.
• Fixed React Native calls flows where outgoing and ongoing call screens failed to mount after call acceptance.
• Fixed React Native initialization flows where getLoggedInUser() threw a NOT_FOUND error instead of returning null when no active session existed.
• Fixed Visual Builder integrations for React Router v7 projects by replacing unsupported type-as-value imports rejected by Rolldown builds.
• Fixed Flutter V6 outgoing-call transitions that previously failed to move from ringing to active in-call surfaces before the stable 6.0.1 release.
• Fixed Windows installer failures where spawn npx ENOENT errors prevented skill installation in certain shell environments.
• Fixed YAML frontmatter parsing failures in calls-related skills caused by unquoted inline colon-space mappings.

Compatibility

• Supported Node.js 18 and later, including Angular CLI workflows on Node.js 20.19+ and 22.12+.
• Supported React 18 and React 19, including Visual Builder integrations using @cometchat/chat-uikit-react@6.4.3.
• Supported Next.js 13 and later with both App Router and Pages Router detection flows.
• Supported React Router v6 and v7.
• Supported Astro 4 and later.
• Supported Expo SDK 49 and later, including SDK 54 validation for Visual Builder workflows.
• Supported React Native 0.70 and later, including validation on React Native 0.85.
• Supported Angular 12 through 21, with Visual Builder integrations automatically falling back to code-driven setup.
• Supported Android V5 stable and Android V6 Compose and Views integrations using Gradle plugin 5.0.1.
• Supported native iOS V5 integrations, excluding pending Visual Builder updates requiring CometChatBuilder > 1.1.2.
• Supported Flutter V5 and Flutter V6 integrations, including production-ready V6 calls support on 6.0.1.

Known Issues

• Known issues remain for bare React Native projects using @cometchat/chat-sdk-react-native@4.0.22, where nested React Native dependency installation can cause AsyncStorage module mismatches at startup.
• Known issues remain for iOS Visual Builder integrations pending a future CometChatBuilder release that includes Layout.compactMessageComposer.
• Known issues remain for non-blocking React Native Expo startup promise rejections caused by unresolved Hermes bytecode source maps.
• Known issues remain for native iOS V5 calls integrations while the required WebRTC binary package remains unavailable from Cloudsmith.
• Known issues remain for dashboard API responses that omit certain Visual Builder configuration fields, although default values are now injected automatically during integration generation.

Upgrade

• Updated installations to @cometchat/skills@4.3.0 using npm install @cometchat/skills@latest or by running npx @cometchat/skills@4.3.0 add.
• Confirmed that all existing v4.2.x code-driven integrations continue to function without modification unless the Visual Builder workflow is explicitly selected.
• Confirmed that rerunning /cometchat against existing integrations safely detects previously generated files and prompts before applying changes.