Conferencing Interfaces as Ready-Made Blocks
A video call chat interface combines two demanding layouts in one screen: a participant grid that must stay balanced as people join and leave, and a live message thread that scrolls independently beside it. This block delivers both halves prebuilt, with video tiles, a call control bar for mute, camera, and end-call actions, and a chat sidebar for in-call messaging.
Building this layout from scratch is deceptively hard, since the grid, the sidebar, and the control bar all compete for space across screen sizes. Starting from a finished block means the layout math is already solved and your effort goes into the real-time plumbing instead.
From Standups to Webinars
The interface fits any product with live conversation: remote team tools running daily standups, telehealth platforms connecting doctors and patients, online classrooms, customer support escalations from a chat app into a face-to-face call, and webinar tools where the chat thread carries audience questions.
It also complements lighter messaging surfaces. A product that starts with embedded chat widgets can graduate users into a full call screen without a visual style break, since both are built on the same component system.
What Powers the Layout
The block is a React interface styled with Tailwind utilities and composed from Shadcn UI primitives such as buttons for the control bar, avatars for participants, inputs for the message composer, and scroll areas for the chat thread. The participant grid and sidebar are pure layout code, which keeps the block independent of any specific video vendor.
That separation is deliberate. The screen renders participants and messages from whatever data you provide, so it can sit on top of WebRTC directly or on a managed service, with the media streams simply filling the tiles.
A Theme Ready Call Interface
Call interfaces are usually used in dark rooms, so theming matters more than average. The block leans on Shadcn UI design tokens, CSS variables declared in globals.css, for surfaces, borders, and text, and follows the class-based dark mode toggle like the rest of your app.
Customization is therefore a token exercise: adjust the variables behind background, card, and muted-foreground and the control bar, tiles, and chat panel all shift together. Destructive styling on the end-call button comes from the token system too, so even the red stays on brand.
Bringing the Call Screen Into Your App
The block ships in React, Vuejs, and Svelte versions, with the Vuejs and Svelte editions building on the shadcn-vue and shadcn-svelte ports. Install it with the shadcn CLI command shown at the top of the example page, using npm, pnpm, yarn, or bun, or copy the files from the code tab. As a pro block, both options unlock with the All Access plan on the pricing page.
After installing, connect a real-time backend: attach your WebRTC or video SDK streams to the participant tiles, bind the control bar buttons to mute and camera toggles, and drive the chat thread from your messaging channel. The UI layer stays unchanged while the data layer goes live.