Tournaments ~ Implementing the Live Chat in Tournaments

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Sam Xie edited this page Nov 14, 2023 · 1 revision

Use a Combination of Regular Frontend Query and Robust Backend CRUD Suites to implement live chat

Rather than real-time communication, fetch new messages from the backend regularly (e.g. every 1 seconds).

Some advantages:

Simpler to implement than WebSockets
Built on common REST API patterns
Leverages robust backend CRUD & storage

To implement:

Create frontend component to fetch messages from API endpoint
Backend API retrieves new messages from database
Frontend polls API to check for message updates
Shows new messages in real-time-like fashion

Some considerations:

Added latency compared to WebSockets
Potential overfetching/underfetching of updates
More API requests required