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Messaging
How to build a collaborative environment around your product
What do Microsoft Word and Adobe have in common? Both had their established market spaces completely disrupted by new entrants that brought realtime collaboration to the user experience. Whilst the barrier to entry for adding features akin to Figma, Google Docs, and Miro had been high, it is now possible to build new collaborative applications, or even simply add collaborative features to existing applications - without building the realtime infrastructure.
Choosing the right WebSocket library for React projects
As users now expect applications to provide instant updates, live chats, and dynamic content, modern web development requires the ability to deliver realtime experiences and communication between users and servers. WebSocket is a communication protocol that allows full-duplex two-way communication between a client and a server over a single TCP connection. The connection persists unless it is explicitly told to disconnect or in case of network or server failure.
Top 6 Reasons to Modernize Legacy Messaging Infrastructure
Traditional messaging middleware like Message Queues (MQs), Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs), and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tools have been widely used for decades to handle message distribution and inter-service communication across distributed applications. However, they can no longer keep up with the needs of modern applications across hybrid and multi cloud environments for asynchronicity, heterogeneous datasets and high volume throughput.
React Hooks now part of Ably's JavaScript SDK
React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries in the world, and is known for its performance, scalability, and flexibility. Whether it’s single-page apps, high fidelity frontends, or even in some cases static sites, there's a high chance React is being used to build them. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have now baked in support for React Hooks within our Ably JavaScript SDK.
Creating Collaborative Applications with Ably Spaces
Learn more about Ably's newest Product, Spaces. Spaces makes it easier to build collaboration features such as Avatar Stacks, Shared Cursors, Component Locking, and more. This video is the first in a series of exploring getting started with each of the Spaces features, subscribe to see when the next videos are released.
Custom vs. off-the-shelf React web notification systems: Which is better?
When building a React web application, one feature you might be considering is a notification system. Notifications enhance the user experience by providing real time updates, alerts, or calls to action. However, the big question is whether to build a custom notification system from scratch or go for an off-the-shelf solution. This choice isn't simple and can influence your project's overall cost, resource allocation, and success.
How Figma took Sketch's market share with realtime collaboration
When Figma arrived with multiplayer editing back in 2016, it wasn't at all obvious it would be successful - in fact, designers kind of hated the idea of "hovering art directors". Fast forward to 2023, and designers can't imagine another way.
The top 11 React chart libraries for data visualization
In today’s data-driven world, presenting data in a visually compelling manner is paramount for user engagement and clarity. React, a premier library for building UIs, has an extensive UI component ecosystem which offers many options for integrating charts. From business analytics dashboards to scientific data displays, the right charting library can transform numbers into insightful narratives.
Introducing Spaces: Build collaborative environments in a few lines of code
We are very excited to announce a new product — Spaces! The Spaces SDK comes with an intuitive set of APIs that allow you to build realtime collaboration features such as avatar stacks, live cursors, member location and component locking, in days. Each API is optimized for their specific use-case, reducing integration effort.