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Tracking changes for other people on the same page

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aa55h posted this in #help-forum
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Lets say there's some change in the database which would change the content of some page - how can i add tracking, so whenever the specific database is changed, i can send "notification" to the currently visiting users with something like "Content of the page has changed"?
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the only way for a server to send data to a client without the client explicitly requesting it is by real time tech such as websocket
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but you can mimic real time by using things like tanstack query which basically polls the server regularly
Would you recommend ws? Or maybe other libraries for realtime
i was talking about websocket the protocol. ws is just one of the libraries allowing you to interact with that protocol, you can use any libs you like
Alright