Proposing features: ability to add new chat steps during chat run

[rakeshe]

Hey Lucas,

I would like to add a feature that allows already mounted chat to add new steps.

Brief

Once steps props is set and Chatbot mounted, I could not find a way to update its internal state.steps by injecting bunch of new steps which one could then trigger.

Proposed feature will extend current capability of pre-scripted chat steps to receive new steps dynamically. With this one can hook it up with a "bot server" that can respond with suggested step(s). This step(s) gets injected into current state.steps which can then be triggered.

Solution

add new method addNewSteps(newStepData: Array){ .. }
process will be similar to instantiating steps onComponentWillMount.
it will parse incoming newStepsData into local var newSteps which then gets merged with
this.state.steps

thoughts?

Cheers.