Real-time Streaming - not sure if my nodebb installation is working

[noobbb]

Hi,

I'm not sure if my nodebb is working normally. How fast is real-time streaming supposed to be? Can I make it faster? like updates every 1-2 seconds?

I saw this on the nodebb home page

Real-time Streaming - Interact with your userbase faster than ever before with instant notifications, streaming posts, and real-time chats.

[PitaJ]

@noobbb it should update immediately. However, I believe the connection is shut down after a certain amount of inactivity.

[noobbb]

@PitaJ Ahh I see. Is there anything I can do to keep the connection alive or make it reconnect faster?

[baris]

Here is a really dirty hack. You can put it in your custom JS section in the ACP

var refreshTimeoutId = 0;
$(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function () {
        if (!app.user.uid) {
             return;
        }
	if (refreshTimeoutId) {
		clearTimeout(refreshTimeoutId);
	}
	refreshTimeoutId = setTimeout(ajaxify.refresh, 300000);
});

This will cause the page to refresh after 5 mins of inactivity hence marking the user online again, after that they should keep receiving realtime notifications.

[noobbb]

@baris Thank you for this.

[noobbb]

@noobbb I added the code to acp > appearance > custom html/css > custom header

then I restarted nodebb

I used a guest account to reply. The other account, which I am logged in with, always immediately gets a notification sound and message box at the bottom right so that's working perfectly. However, the message/post itself usually does not appear until I refresh the page. It does appear sometimes - usually if I have waited a while to reply first - seems like a cool down period is required? If I rapid fire a bunch of replies, they won't live stream.

Can I make it always live stream? Thanks.

[baris]

We don't have a cooldown for the instant replies, they should show up if you are at the bottom of the topic.

[noobbb]

@baris Hmm. What options do I have to make real time streaming work? Do I need to reinstall nodebb?

[PitaJ]

@noobbb open a bug on Github and we'll see if we can reproduce the issue. If it's not streaming posts, it's a bug.

[noobbb]

@PitaJ Will do. Thanks.