Support for reactive apps today

[SharadKumar]

I am looking around and was reading through the Blitz documentation, releases, and issues. I am trying to assess if Blitz does, or intends to support reactivity in the apps?

I noted that Prisma (v2) does not support subscriptions or realtime yet. The likes of Hasura has decent support for it, and SWR too.

With SWR, components get a stream of data updates constantly and automatically. Thus, the UI is always fast and reactive.

Question

What would a workaround look like with Blitz (to have realtime UI) in the interim, should we decide to use Blitz?
(we are quite excited to see the new Auth release coming out soon!)

#586

[LoriKarikari]

Hi @SharadKumar, react-query which is what blitz uses, supports reactive queries.

[flybayer]

Yep, same as swr!

[SharadKumar]

Sounds good. Thanks for the clarification.
I think we need this explicitly called out in documentation somewhere.

[flybayer]

@SharadKumar good idea! Want to open a PR for that? 👉 https://github.com/blitz-js/blitzjs.com

[edi]

I just heard about Blitz in a medium daily sub email. Decided to glance through its features and its issues (while waking up, in bed lol).

While I have no experience with Rails or Ruby, I am interested in an active and flexible platform like Blitz. First thing I saw was the folder structures idea, which seems to be coming to fruition quite fast. So thats a plus.

Next, I obviously looked into realtime data streams, since I am an avid Firebase (now Firestore) user.

So I’ll give Blitz a try! If it does what it promises, damn you’re on the right track :)