Sending from your server

Your server sends to rooms and to users with its secret, the same way whether a browser or an app gets it (sending in depth).

To a room

Node

await realtime.to( 'order:1042' ).emit( 'updated', { status: 'shipped' } );

PHP

$realtime->to( 'order:1042' )->emit( 'updated', [ 'status' => 'shipped' ] );

Python

realtime.to("order:1042").emit("updated", {"status": "shipped"})

rt.join("order:1042").on("updated") { data, _ in status = data["status"]?.string ?? status }

Not back to the app that caused it

When the app asks your server to change something, it sends its own name on the connection, rt.tab, and your server leaves it out of the emit: the app has already shown the change.

var request = URLRequest(url: server.appendingPathComponent("orders/1042/status"))
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.setValue("Bearer \(token)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
request.setValue(rt.tab, forHTTPHeaderField: "X-Realtime-Tab")

Node

await realtime.to( 'order:1042' ).except( req.get( 'x-realtime-tab' ) ).emit( 'updated', { status } );

PHP

$realtime->to( 'order:1042' )->except( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REALTIME_TAB'] ?? null )->emit( 'updated', [ 'status' => $status ] );
// Laravel: broadcast( new OrderUpdated( $order ) )->toOthers();

Python

realtime.to("order:1042").except_tab(request.headers.get("X-Realtime-Tab")).emit("updated", {"status": status})

To a user

What only one user should get, on every page and app they have open, without a room of yours:

Node

await realtime.toUser( 42 ).emit( 'notice', { text: 'Your order shipped' } );

PHP

$realtime->toUser( 42 )->emit( 'notice', [ 'text' => 'Your order shipped' ] );

Python

realtime.to_user(42).emit("notice", {"text": "Your order shipped"})

rt.on("notice") { data, _ in toast(data["text"]?.string ?? "") }
for await (notice, _) in rt.events("notice") { toast(notice["text"]?.string ?? "") }   // or as a sequence

It reaches the app while it is connected. This SDK has no push yet: an app that is closed, or long in the background, hears it next time it opens only if it was also kept in the history of a room.

Webhooks

What apps and pages send to rooms, and who comes online, reaches your server by webhook, as for your web pages (webhooks).