CODEWITHSUNDEEP
sql-serverangularjsasp.net-web-api
Rokata
Rokata

Reputation: 1229

Integrating notifications/messages to the client in an AngularJS + ASP.NET Web API app

I'm creating a SPA application with AngularJS at the client side and ASP.NET Web API as backend. My database is SQL Server 2012. There will be users which have a favourite sports team and a simple icon in the UI displaying the number of new articles/news/comments added or whatever connected to their favourite teams.

What I'd like to achieve is the following: Whenever a record about their team is inserted (record with TeamID column value for example equal to the user's favourite team ID), that notifications count icon should be updated immediately (just like Facebook's notifications - it's updated when a friend has posted on your wall or has tagged you and so on). How can I best achieve this?

What I'm thinking of for now is just setting an interval function in AngularJS to check every 30 seconds, let's say, if there are new records in the database making a request to a Web API controller. Of course this suggests a lot of checking for when the user is logging out - when was the last check, what will be the date to check against next time he/she logs in and so on.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1298

Answers (2)

Logar
Logar

Reputation: 1248

What you are looking for is push

Sadly i never used it so i don't know much about it, but i think you should use technologies like pusher

Upvotes: 0

Sjoerd222888
Sjoerd222888

Reputation: 3476

You can use signalR for this. It's a framework for real time communication. Check out this to get if you want to get started. It can easily be used together with angularJS.

Upvotes: 2

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