convex-realtime
Implement real-time features using Convex reactive queries that automatically update when data changes, enabling live collaboration, instant updates, and reactive UIs without manual polling. Use when building live dashboards, implementing collaborative editing, creating chat applications, showing real-time notifications, building activity feeds, implementing presence indicators, creating reactive search, or any feature requiring instant data synchronization across clients.
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Convex Realtime skill empowers developers to implement high-performance, real-time features using Convex reactive queries. By enabling instant data synchronization and live subscriptions, it eliminates the need for manual polling and complex state management, ensuring that user interfaces stay perfectly in sync with the underlying database automatically.
Use Cases
- Live Dashboards & Analytics: Build monitoring tools that update instantly as metrics change without requiring page refreshes.
- Collaborative Editing: Implement Google Docs-style multi-user collaboration for documents, forms, and project management tools.
- Real-time Communication: Create chat applications, instant messaging systems, and live notification engines with minimal latency.
- User Presence Indicators: Show real-time 'online/offline' status and active user tracking for multiplayer or social platforms.
- Reactive Search & Feeds: Develop search interfaces and activity feeds that automatically push new results to users as data is indexed.
| name | convex-realtime |
|---|---|
| description | Implement real-time features using Convex reactive queries that automatically update when data changes, enabling live collaboration, instant updates, and reactive UIs without manual polling. Use when building live dashboards, implementing collaborative editing, creating chat applications, showing real-time notifications, building activity feeds, implementing presence indicators, creating reactive search, or any feature requiring instant data synchronization across clients. |
Convex Realtime - Live Data Subscriptions
When to use this skill
- Building live dashboards that update instantly
- Implementing collaborative editing features
- Creating real-time chat applications
- Showing instant notifications to users
- Building activity feeds that update live
- Implementing user presence indicators
- Creating reactive search with live results
- Building multiplayer or collaborative features
- Showing real-time analytics and metrics
- Implementing live document collaboration
- Creating real-time forms with validation
- Building features requiring instant synchronization
When to use this skill
- Building realtime features, live updates, collaborative apps.
- When working on related tasks or features
- During development that requires this expertise
Use when: Building realtime features, live updates, collaborative apps.
Auto-Updating Queries
```typescript const messages = useQuery(api.messages.list, { channelId }); // Automatically updates when data changes! ```