# Comment thread

A React component in [Beamline](https://beamline.io/)'s [Content & display](https://beamline.io/components/display) category. Live demo: https://beamline.io/components/comment-thread

A discussion attached to something: replies, reactions, @mentions, editing and deleting your own, resolve that folds the thread.

## Use it for

- Comments on a record, a chart, a document.

## Not for

- Real-time chat ([chat-thread](https://beamline.io/components/chat-thread)).

## Anatomy

- header (title, count, resolve)
- comment (avatar, name, time, body with mentions, reactions, reply)
- replies
- composer (mention input)

## States

- open
- resolved
- replying
- editing own

## Keyboard

- ⌘Enter sends
- Escape cancels a reply
- your comment edits in place

## Motion

A new comment or reply grows in and the thread makes room; a deleted one fades where it stood (useFlip). Reduced motion places at once.

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `comments / defaultComments / onCommentsChange` | `ThreadComment[] / (list, event) => void` | — |  |
| `currentUser / people` | `{ id, name, avatar? }` | — |  |
| `resolved / defaultResolved / onResolvedChange` | `boolean` | — |  |
| `reactions / maxDepth / placeholder / nowLabel` | `mixed` | — |  |
| `classNames` | `CommentThreadClassNames` | — |  |
| `style / ref` | `CSSProperties / native Ref` | — |  |

## Dependencies

`lucide-react`

## Import

```tsx
import { CommentThread } from "@/components/comment-thread/comment-thread";
```

## Get it

Comment thread is part of Beamline: 190 React components and screens your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client) installs into your app through Beamline's MCP server, as a ready-built package or as plain React source you can change. $49 one payment (regular $200), no subscription, a year of updates, one licence for your whole team. [Get Beamline](https://beamline.io/checkout?pack=complete) · [Connect your agent](https://beamline.io/connect)

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