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Continuing on in our chat app with Hotwire, we are going to be implementing the ability to indicate to users that they have unread messages in conversations.
To provide clean integrations with Rails plugins, we can use lazy load hooks to add callbacks for when classes are loaded.
Let's add the ability to edit the contents of our messages and broadcast page refreshes so that everyone can see the latest version of our messages.
Showing users that they have unread messages is nice but it would be nicer if we scrolled them to the start of those unread messages when they visit a conversation which is what we will implement in this lesson.
In this lesson, we will look at an extremely simple way to implement keeping track of and displaying the online/logged in status of users in our chat application.
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