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Learn how to implement realtime notifications with ActionCable
In this series, we're building a clone of Slack using Rails 5 and ActionCable
Learn how Rails 5's new ActionCable and Websocket feature works with Redis in realtime
Stimulus Reflex is one of the coolest new libraries out there. It can update the browser in realtime and allow you to build reactive applications without any Javascript. It's awesome.
If we want to add realtime tracking of which users are online, we can use active websocket connections through ActionCable to keep track.
Check out some behind the scenes of ActionCable to understand how and why it uses Redis
Learn how to deploy ActionCable and Rails 5 with Passenger
Sending chat messages from the browser to the server with ActionCable
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
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.
Add realtime direct messages between users in our chat application using ActionCable
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
Build a reactive multi-user spreadsheet web app with ActionCable and RethinkDB
Tracking unread messages in chat so that we can provide a nice user experience for our users
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