Chapter 4. Real-time Communication

Our application is beginning to take shape. We have a list of projects and a form that allows us to add, delete, and update projects. We are also able to assign repositories to these projects, which allows us to view a list of issues/commits for all repositories in a project. This chapter will guide you through the next phase of our client setup: displaying a list of project repository commits and issues in real time using Redis and Socket.IO.

We would ideally like the application to continue working with Socket.IO/Redis switched off, leaving the application without a real-time element. We will attempt to implement these features with this in mind.