Setting up notifications in a serverless infrastructure.
My backend is using MongoDB & serverless. Frontend is using tanstack query.
What I am doing currently -
1. Listening to a websocket (at
wss://websockets.company.com/and if there is a notification, I do the following -
1.a. Invalidate my notifications query
1.b. Look at the event that was just heard at the websocket and parse it for the alert I want to give (eg - if the event looked like {type: "task", action "completed", _id: "123"} I would give an alert that a task was completed in a snackbar and invalidate that task query)
Questions -
1. How should I be setting up hearing for notifications? Is 1.a fine?
2. What should the format for the notification be? Is there a standard? Since there will be many notifications over time, I'd love some advice on what is the best way to set this up. Currently mine just looks like a massive switch case / if-else block.0 Replies