Completely see where you're coming from. I work with CometChat and our attitude is to help developers build text, voice and video chat features.

We are a developer tool like any other. The fact that we're a hosted developer tool lets us remove the (potential) headache of DevOps and the (absolutely definite) headache of security and compliance like GDPR and HIPAA. Little things like message history become seamless because we can help manage your data for you.

I hope you don't think this is subtle advertising, though. We're sharing a really good solution and some handy free UI components we worked hard on. People learning Vue can benefit from this tutorial a lot too.