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layout: changelog
title: "Realtime Channel helpers: Type-safe subscriptions made simple"
date: 2026-02-13
cover: /images/blog/announcing-realtime-channel-helpers/cover.avif
tags: realtime
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Appwrite Realtime now includes Channel helpers, a fluent, type-safe API for building channel subscriptions. Instead of manually writing channel strings, you use the `Channel` class with IDE autocomplete and compile-time validation.

Channel helpers support all available channels, event type filtering with `.create()`, `.update()`, and `.delete()`, and flexible wildcards by omitting IDs. Existing string-based subscriptions continue to work.

Available across all Appwrite client SDKs: Web, Flutter, Apple, and Android.

Now live on Appwrite Cloud.

[Read the announcement to learn more](/blog/post/announcing-realtime-channel-helpers)