I'm using Lucee - for sending real-time (simple JS...
# luceem
mrtom
11/08/2023, 7:08 PMI'm using Lucee - for sending real-time (simple JSON) notifications to the browser, is the websocket extension the best way, or something better/more current?
I'm having issues getting it to work, but before I spent too much more time, I want to make sure I'm going the right direction.
maybe browser notifications are better?
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bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:32 PMI recommend using websockets but the websocket extension is basically unsupported and I dont' recommend it
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:33 PMI use RabbitMQ with the STOMP websocket plugin and it works very well
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:33 PMI really love the queue/message semantics for websockets and I can send broadcast messages to topics with any number of listening clients as well as send messages back from the browser to the server
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:34 PMAnd Rabbit allows me to enforce authentication to control what topics a given user can subscribe to
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:35 PMAnd since RabbitMQ is a single service (I run it on Docker), I can scale out as many Lucee servers as I like and they all "know" about all the subscribers, no matter what CF server you're hitting
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:35 PMAll of the built-in CF websocket solutions suffer from the same issue of not clustering well
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:36 PMFor example, if you have 5 clustered CF servers and 500 users, with roughly 100 users connected to the websocket listener on each of your 5 servers. If you try to broadcast a message from server 3, only 20% of your users will receive it-- the 100 users that happen to be connected to that server.
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:37 PMRabbitMQ becomes the single point of all web socket connections. Now Server number 2 sends a message to a topic in rabbit that, in turn, is broadcast to ALL connections.
bdw429s
11/08/2023, 7:38 PMIf you need to scale to more than several thousand connections (browser), I'd look at a hosted service like socket.io, which operates on a similar idea, but now you pay for a hosted cloud SASS that is fielding all the incoming websocket connections and you use an API to ask it to send stuff out
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mrtom
11/08/2023, 7:41 PMthanks for all the info! I will do some research and learning
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minh
11/09/2023, 12:48 PMYou can use firebase for that
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