realtime-patterns

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides guidance and patterns for building real-time and collaborative applications, addressing challenges like concurrent state management, efficient data streaming, and user presence.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Transport Selection: Guides on choosing between WebSockets, SSE, WebRTC, and polling for different real-time needs.
• WebSocket Patterns: Demonstrates connection lifecycle management and backpressure handling.
• SSE for AI Streaming: Provides server and client examples for streaming AI responses.
• CRDTs: Explains Conflict-free Replicated Data Types and introduces Yjs for collaborative editing.
• Presence: Shows how to track and broadcast user online status and activity.
• Sync Engine Selection: Compares different synchronization solutions.
• Tribunal Integration: Highlights common anti-patterns and provides a self-audit checklist for real-time systems.

Quick Start

Use the realtime-patterns skill to implement a WebSocket connection with exponential backoff and backpressure handling.