Subscriptions

  • Resolved Kurt

    (@highfxmedia)


    10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Seems like adding subscriptions was started a while back but not finished. Subscriptions would make this plugin even greater. Any plans to add subscriptions?

    Thanks!

    Kurt

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  • Plugin Author Jason Bahl

    (@jasonbahl)

    @highfxmedia Hey Kurt!

    Thanks for your interest in Subscriptions. I agree that it would be a fantastic feature, and we hope to support it one day, but we don’t have an ETA and it’s not currently being actively pursued.

    One of the challenges to formally supporting it in core WPGraphQL is the transport. PHP environments typically are not ideal for handling open sockets and a lot of WordPress hosts wouldn’t support it, so there’s a good chance a service would be needed to handle the persistent open connection to transport the real-time events.

    Possibly a service like Pusher or Ably could serve as the transport layer.

    I’ll see if I can track down some old experiments I’ve done in the space and publish them on Github to see if they could maybe inspire someone to get something working.

    Thread Starter Kurt

    (@highfxmedia)

    Jason:

    Thanks for your quick response. Yes, subscriptions are complicated so I understand why they haven’t been included yet. They will allow for some killer apps when they’re part of WPGraphQL. Inspiration is the mother of invention so let ‘er rip!

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