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It's important to see that there are unread messages in channels you're not actively viewing. We can use a very simple event in ActionCable to do this and bold channel names with unread messages.
User mentions in group chat is a crucial feature, so this week we're taking a look at how to add @ mentions for our users in chat with regex and more.
Build a reactive multi-user spreadsheet web app with ActionCable and RethinkDB
Testing ActionCable authentication with Devise is pretty easy, especially when we build our own helpers to stub out Warden
Keeping track of a user's last read timestamp for each chat room is straightforward, especially when we use Stimulus.js to update it from the client side.
An updated version of our Group Chat series using Webpacker, ActionCable, Stimulus.js, and modern Javascript to build a very clean version of realtime group chat in Rails
Tracking unread messages in chat so that we can provide a nice user experience for our users
Add realtime direct messages between users in our chat application using ActionCable
To only have ActionCable's JS connect for logged in users, we can setup our Javascript to know when a user is authenticated or not, and have our websocket try to connect accordingly.
Adding browser notifications for new messages with the Notifications and Page Visiblity APIs
Streaming realtime progress to the browser is easy with ActionCable. This episode covers how we send over SSH logs in realtime inside Hatchbox.io
Learn how to deploy ActionCable and Rails 5 with Passenger
Sending chat messages from the browser to the server with ActionCable
Check out some behind the scenes of ActionCable to understand how and why it uses Redis
In this series, we're building a clone of Slack using Rails 5 and ActionCable
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