realtime

You can manualy use it by using any server-side WebSocket libraries

TL;DR

The user is seeking help understanding how to implement realtime functionality on their server. They are introduced to Appwrite Webhooks as a solution. The user expresses concerns about the amount of work and lack of backend experience. There is no specific solution or conclusion in the thread.

Check this https://discord.com/channels/564160730845151244/870534256324124692/1125948233089294366

What's your use case?

sorry about the delay response i want to be able to listen for document creations on a server

however while the ws connection does say is successful

i do not get any of the events im expecting

i usually get these two messages

Received: '{"type":"connected","data":{"channels":["databases.64be8855815ab10ea802.collections.64be886f3f3564bb2192.documents"],"user":null}}' app.js:48 64 Received: '{"type":"error","data":{"code":0,"message":"array_key_exists(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type array, int given"}}'

TypeScript

    "accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
    "cache-control": "no-cache",
    "pragma": "no-cache",
    "sec-websocket-extensions": "permessage-deflate; client_max_window_bits",
    // "sec-websocket-key": "/oj9X0GI+Sqbh05hLCbqQw==",
    "sec-websocket-version": "13"
  });```

not sure if i am missing something

i guess i could use a cloud function on this instance and have another messaging api let my server know about the creation

but that just seems like alot of work

nvm the second error was because i was sending data to the server from the client

oh theres a whole auth process that needs to. be done once connected passing the session back to the server to be able to receive the events

hmmm now this has become some work

so typically, servers are able to have an endpoint listening for http requests. can you do that?

sorry dont have much experience with backend

what are you doing for your server? what do you have set up?

like have a cloudfunction call my http endpoint

right now i just have basic express server

but i think you are telling me define a route and call that route

which makes sense now that i think about it

yes, exactly. you can use Appwrite Webhooks https://appwrite.io/docs/webhooks. The webhook can be configured to make a POST request to your express server with the data just like the realtime payload.

This is why it's typically not needed to have realtime in the server SDK

ohhhh thats awesome

makes sense

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