Tw server: multi user and files updates

[joshuafontany]

@jypre

ning tw as a nod server. In my setup, I’d like to have one window/tab with the code and an other with the data (user point of view if you want).

My problem is that there is no update from the one to the other or not every time. Mostly, the only way to know that something has changed is to look on the filesystem and reload stuff from here. But I have been told this was rot an automatic feature, and this may explain why sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. What is sure is that’s it’s not a friendly way of doing. This loads to much oddities!

Any hope to get a proper mechanism?

The current node.js tw server lets the clients “poll” for updates, but the polling-period is 1 minute (https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hidden%20Setting%3A%20Sync%20Polling%20Interval). You could set that very low (5 seconds or so), and then reset it when you are done… leaving it low would burn lots of resources as you would be sendging an http request every 5 seconds, and most of the responses would be empty.

See my new thread on realtime multi-user multi-wiki syncing for an, admitted, teaser. But this functionality is coming soon.