Well, you'd want the database to just fetch the last 25 or so messages when the link loads for the first time. Your browser probably needs to refresh.
I use firebase.com for my realtime chat / database backend. It works great. I built a chat system that works fine, now I'm working on a project management site that uses firebase as a backend and you get realtime updates of projects. On Sunday, December 30, 2012 2:58:56 PM UTC-7, HittingSmoke wrote: > > I was randomly tinkering around and discovered websocket_messaging.py > > I've got that running and it appears to be receiving messages from the > sample functions but I can't seem to get them to actually display in the > browser. I was wondering if there was some sort of nice, canned websocket > javascript client that can just be added to a web2py app and pointed at > websocket_messaging.py. > > Has anyone used websocket_messaging.py it to build a more robust chat > server that ties in with auth? The key/token thing confused me a bit. > > How do you store messages using websocket_messaging.py? The script size in > memory could get quite huge. Writing the history to a database table is the > first option that comes to mind but at first glance I don't see any way to > purge all or part of the stored input of the script. Is this something that > would need to be done within tornado (which I have absolutely no experience > with)? > > I'm still very new to all of this and plan on eventually building a simple > message board app. Since IRC is becoming less and less common I'd like to > create a chat system to pair it with. Does anyone have any experience with > websocket_messaging.py they'd like to share, or other recommendations? > > I've watched the video that's circulating the group but it was never > translated into English so it hasn't been much use to me. > --
