Scaling and maintaining a real-time infrastructure requires an investment a startup can’t afford. Aggelia allows you to dispatch real-time events from your backend to all your web clients. It takes 5 lines of code to get started and it's incredibly scalable.
[What's the difference with Firebase / Firestore ?] Firebase (especially Firestore) is great as a real-time database. However, even if we often use it that way, it's not really intended to use it in order to emit/listen a lot of real-time events. Let’s take a consumer app where you can display your friends on the Home Screen. Every time one of your friends goes online, you wanna see his « presence status » changing with a green bubble. It's a very simple problem you could solve with Firestore. H
Hey Product Hunters! During my journey as a web developer, I noticed that building real-time/presence-based features has always been a pain for my coworkers and me. When you're a startup, you can't really afford to spend time scaling and maintaining a socket infrastructure. In my last startup, we used Firebase to handle all the real-time stuff, but at some point, it just broke. Despite the fact Firestore and RTDB are incredible products, they are not really intended to handle Presence and real-t