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William
William

Reputation: 13632

Building a web app to support team collaboration using Socket.io

I'm building a web application that will allow team collaboration. That is, a user within a team will be able to edit shared data, and their edits should be pushed to other connected team members.

Are Socket.io rooms a reasonable way of achieving this?

i.e. (roughly speaking):

Obviously it will need to somehow handle simultaneous updates to the same data.

Does this seem like a reasonable approach?

Might I need to consider something more robust, such as having a Redis database to hold the shared data during an editing session (with it being 'flushed' to the persistant DB at regular intervals)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1278

Answers (1)

alessioalex
alessioalex

Reputation: 63673

All you need is Socket.IO (with RedisStore) and Express.js. With Socket.IO you can setup rooms and also limit the access per room to only users who are auth. Using Redis you can make your app scale outside a process.

Useful links for you to read:

Handling Socket.IO, Express and sessions
Scaling Socket.IO
How to reuse redis connection in socket.io?
socket.io chat with private rooms
How to handle user and socket pairs with node.js + redis
Node.js, multi-threading and Socket.io

Upvotes: 2

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