Realtime Group Chat With ActionCable

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

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Realtime Group Chat with Rails [Revised] - Part 2

Jun 04, 2020 Pro

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

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Realtime Group Chat with Rails [Revised] - Part 3

Jul 01, 2020 Pro

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.

Realtime Group Chat with Rails [Revised] - Part 4

Jul 27, 2020 Pro

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.

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Realtime Group Chat with Rails [Revised] - Part 5

Aug 05, 2020 Pro

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.

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Realtime Group Chat With ActionCable

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