Rails with ReactJS - realtime data fetch

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Can I fetch the data from the my database in realtime using Rails and ReactJS?

I have just started using React with Rails as this is pretty awesome combination. What I want to know is if there is a way to tell the view to update itself after a component is deleted/ created (so a record is removed/ added to the database)? Something like user after entering the page will subscribe to the database event (?).

What I have now is ComponentContainer with a custom fetch method that gets json from the server. I put it in the componentWillMount and inside a setInterval and run it every single second:

var ComponentsContainer = React.createClass({
    componentWillMount() {
        this.fetchRecords();
        setInterval(this.fetchRecords, 1000);
    },
    fetchRecords() {
        $.getJSON(path_to_results,
            (data) => this.setState({components: data});
    }, ...render methods etc.
});

zwippie · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-21 14:29:58Z

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Sounds like you might be looking for ActionCable, a Rails 5 thing. It uses sockets to provide server/client communication and will enable the server to send or broadcast messages to clients.

answered Nov 21, 2016 at 14:29

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