RocketChat / RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Crop Images in Chat
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Description
Description:
Steps to reproduce:
- Go to any Channel
- In Message Box click on " + " icon & choose "upload file from computer" or "choose from library"
- select an image from local filesystem & upload
Expected behavior:
expecting to see cropping , editing, rotating, filtering, drawing on images
Actual behavior:

Expecting to have some common image editing features.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the message box upload flow described in the reproduction steps and trace how selected images are presented in chat. Clarify whether cropping, editing, rotating, filtering, and drawing are all in scope, then define the supported behavior and validation needed for each before implementation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100