Implementing subscriptions

[david_rosenblum]

This is similar to this question answered earlier. Neo4j supports publishing changes via APOC Triggers. And you could still use GraphQL, but perhaps the subscription would be against a queue or topic in Kafka?

Earlier post:

Realtime notifications of node changes

Hello, I'm working on a dating app. I just setup the "Like" relationships and I'm trying to work out a way to notify the other user that someone like them (if they're logged in). I looked at the APOC triggers, but they seem to be more of "call a web api, and manipulate data" type of triggers instead of a realtime subscriber type notification. I know I could just setup a timed polling that would go out and check at a preset timespan...but I really dislike that idea (for SO many reasons). I fou…