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I'm creating a chatting app. How do I achieve real time sync. What I have done currently is to invoke list service every 3 seconds on page show event like this:

function reList() {
list.execute({});
setTimeout(runCode,3000);
$('.ui-loading div.ui-loader').css('display', 'none');
}
reList();

this seems to slow down the app a lot.
Is there a better way to do this?

Hello,

How many records does your service return?

service returns all records available at the moment. I intend to limit that to 20 each time. I wonder how the number of records returned would affect real time syncing. especially as it is a chat app.

Hello,

You can't increase speed this way. Passing data between client and server takes some time. This can be helpful: https://getsatisfaction.com/apperyio/...

Hi Katya

are you insinuating that real time sync is not possible. Isn't there a manual way of achieving this?

Hi,

It's possible. But as you mentioned speed is low, this depends on channel speed, you can't just increase its value.

so how can I achieve realtime sync?

Real time sync has to be coded by you.. for instance, you could try using http://pusher.com/

Thanks for sharing! I'm currently trying to use Firebase. I'll see if it works. If I need help? I'll let you know.

https://www.firebase.com