Devlog 11

I usually space out my devlogs more, but I have now managed to get the base connection. This went by rather flawlessly due to now having the ability to use a python server for websockets, rather than the old system of having to use SQL requests with a million different RPC functions (sometimes causing queries to take up to 500ms on average) now taking only 100ms on average.

This uses a simple system to take the JWT token from the user, validate it from the server to find the user id, then checks the database to see what group the user is in, then checks the group to make sure that the user is actually in that group, and if all those conditions are met, the user will connect to the websocket.

If the user is the first one in the websocket, it right now just prints it, but it is designed to soon be used for a new feature. Soon, when a user joins a websocket and is the first one there, the server will load all that group’s data from the database, the reason for this is to have lightning fast connection and also make it possible to synchronize all users’ data in real time. (Whenever a user makes a change, it would update the server’s copy, and also push that change to the database)