Auto-refresh periodically

[swanson]

Use a webhook to auto refresh periodically - update favicon with unread count?

Investigate further: https://gist.github.com/plasticine/5175588

[swanson]

Maybe this is best implemented with a simple setInterval()

[petersonfs]

I'm thinking about that. What do you think in implement some things with de pusher api? It will be more elegant and very efficient. What do you think?

[swanson]

Pasted from #173:

Ya #33 was not super clear - I misunderstood what Fever meant by auto refreshing.

I think something like:

wait 5 minutes
poll if any new unread stories have been added
if so, render the new stuff

It gets a bit tricky because you don't want to do weird stuff with rendering if the user is just reading a long article. Maybe something like how Twitter does the new messages when you have the page open would be better.

[janxious]

Stupid way of doing it might look something like this: https://github.com/janxious/stringer/commit/10fe6bba0b9f504f4a507fba4289ff5395345765

P.S. I want to put the JS into ye olde backbone, but I'm utterly noobish with that framework. Seeking guidance.

[swanson]

@janxious I have little to no guidance to provide :) I'm in the same noob boat!

[janxious]

Here's something where the code could hypothetically work unlike that other thing. https://github.com/janxious/stringer/pull/1/files

My thought is that probably the unread thing needs its own backbone view?