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User mentions in group chat is a crucial feature, so this week we're taking a look at how to add @ mentions for our users in chat with regex and more.
It's important to see that there are unread messages in channels you're not actively viewing. We can use a very simple event in ActionCable to do this and bold channel names with unread messages.
Keeping track of a user's last read timestamp for each chat room is straightforward, especially when we use Stimulus.js to update it from the client side.
An updated version of our Group Chat series using Webpacker, ActionCable, Stimulus.js, and modern Javascript to build a very clean version of realtime group chat in Rails
Stimulus Reflex is one of the coolest new libraries out there. It can update the browser in realtime and allow you to build reactive applications without any Javascript. It's awesome.
If we want to add realtime tracking of which users are online, we can use active websocket connections through ActionCable to keep track.
Testing ActionCable authentication with Devise is pretty easy, especially when we build our own helpers to stub out Warden
Streaming realtime progress to the browser is easy with ActionCable. This episode covers how we send over SSH logs in realtime inside Hatchbox.io
Add realtime direct messages between users in our chat application using ActionCable
Build a reactive multi-user spreadsheet web app with ActionCable and RethinkDB
Tracking unread messages in chat so that we can provide a nice user experience for our users
Adding browser notifications for new messages with the Notifications and Page Visiblity APIs
Sending chat messages from the browser to the server with ActionCable
In this series, we're building a clone of Slack using Rails 5 and ActionCable
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