Wow Chat for Woo

Wow Chat for Woo adds shopper-friendly product discovery to a WooCommerce store. Everything runs locally on your site — no account, no API key, and no external service.

• Typo-tolerant catalog search backed by MySQL FULLTEXT and a custom ranker.
• « Recently viewed », « Related products », and « Frequently bought together » recommendation widgets.
• A FAQ chat bubble that doubles as an on-store product finder.
• Gutenberg blocks for the search bar, recommendation grids, and chat widget.

Development

This plugin ships both the compiled assets (in build/) and their full, human-readable source so the build is reproducible.

• JavaScript/TypeScript/SCSS source: src/ — every bundle under build/ is compiled from a matching entry point in src/ (e.g. build/admin/index.js ← src/admin/index.tsx, build/blocks/<name>/index.js ← src/blocks/<name>/index.js).
• Build tooling: @wordpress/scripts (webpack), configured in webpack.config.js and tsconfig.json. Dependencies and the build script are declared in package.json / package-lock.json.
• Build the assets:
  1. npm install
  2. npm run build — regenerates everything in build/.
• PHP dependencies: composer.json declares dev-only tooling (PHPUnit, WP Coding Standards). No runtime Composer dependencies. Run composer install then vendor/bin/phpunit for the PHP test suite.

No third-party JavaScript libraries are bundled into the compiled assets. The only external packages used (@wordpress/* and react) are not bundled — they load from the WordPress-provided script globals at runtime.