Make event system for apiko about apiko

[alewiahmed]

From my previous experience, what I needed was to get an event when a data is inserted, deleted or updated.

[ilabacheuski]

So what do we need? Do we need long-poling system?
Or just implement something like Apiko.when('POST /path') interface?
websockets? How you solved it Alewi?

[alewiahmed]

What I propose is websockets. May be use socket.io. we would need a frontend script to do this. I didn't solve it. I just did a fetch of data every now & then, which as you know is not a good solution.

[kasp1]

Websockets sound good to me. Most browsers already support them and there are polyfills for those that don't.

We've got a couple of questions to consider with websockets:

• How will a client authenticate in a websocket connection? Is it possible to read and associate session or is a separate authentication needed?
• What about access rights and roles? Can events to CRUD operations be sent according to existing login/role/ownership rules and not sent to clients that are not authorized?