Updating our chat UI

We'll want to start off by modifying the UI to allow for the display of users and write in a couple of examples of what different join, leave, or status change messages might look like. We'll make a couple of assumptions in doing this, and this is the kind of thing where if you were building this as a fully-fledged startup or anything like that, you'd likely want to clean up the design and UI of all of this. That's okay, though—we're interested in quick results! Besides, after we launch and get our 10 million dollar valuation, then we can go back and hire a designer to make everything look beautiful!

The few assumptions that we're going to be making throughout this process are as follows:

  • Users will have three statuses: ...

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