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Mastering RethinkDB

You're reading from   Mastering RethinkDB Master the skills of building real-time apps dramatically easier with open source, scalable database - RethinkDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461070
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shahid Shaikh Shahid Shaikh
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The RethinkDB Architecture and Data Model 2. RethinkDB Query Language FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Exploration Using RethinkDB 4. Performance Tuning in RethinkDB 5. Administration and Troubleshooting Tasks in RethinkDB 6. RethinkDB Deployment 7. Extending RethinkDB 8. Full Stack Development with RethinkDB 9. Polyglot Persistence Using RethinkDB 10. Using RethinkDB and Horizon

Socket.io integration for message broadcasting

Here is the code that will perform the RethinkDB changefeed operation and event broadcasting:

var rethinkdb = require('rethinkdb'); 
var db = require('./db'); 
var pollObject = new db(); 
module.exports = function(socket) { 
  pollObject.connectToDb(function(err,connection) { 
  if(err) { 
    return callback(true,"Error connecting to database"); 
  } 
  // Look over this line carefully. 
  // we are invoking changes() function on poll table. 
  // On every change it will give us data. 
  rethinkdb.table('poll').changes().run(connection,function(err,cursor) { 
    if(err) { 
      console.log(err); 
    } 
    // We are scrolling over the cursor data and broadcasting the changes using socket. 
    cursor.each(function(err,row) { 
      console.log(JSON.stringify(row)); 
      if(Object.keys(row).length > 0) { 
        socket.broadcast.emit("changeFeed",{"id" : row.new_val.id,&quot...
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