Is there any way to get only a backend rocket.chat proyect?
I don't want to use the frontend from rocket. I want to create some app and do some request to the rocket backend to interact with all the server features in rocket.
Its currently not possible.
Rocket.Chat is built using the Meteor framework. Unfortunately with meteor this is no way to disable the browser platform as a target. See this ticket for more details
It doesn't hurt to have the UI there and just not use it though.
If you are wanting to prevent UI access. I would maybe look at adding rules to your reverse proxy to return 404 for things such as:
index.html
theme.css
*.js
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I want to develop my own single page web application (SPA) to get to grips with the modern and highly fluid world of web development. At the same time, I would like to use the page rendering technology (SSR) with built in data into html. However, there is an authorization problem.
Suppose that the user has already logged into the account before, as I imagine re-opening the site:
First request: the client makes a request to the frontend server along with identification and authorization data (for example, user id and token; the only option is to save them in cookies), the frontend server makes a request to the api server, transferring these service data, then the api server gives the information about the user and the content of the current page (in the same json), the frontend server renders this into a finished page and delivers it to the client.
Subsequent requests: the client directly addresses the api server, transferring the same (or updated after the first request) authorization data, receives json and processes it independently.
Actually, I want to move on to the question. Do I understand this interaction correctly? Can you do it differently / better? Are there tools that allow, for example, to use the components of the frontend framework as components of the MVC backend framework, so that one server does the rendering without unnecessary requests? Or a unified tool that includes the same coding for the frontend and backend to solve these problems? I will say right away that I would not like to write a backend in JS.
I can roughly imagine how you can get by with one request when using AngularJS (with a module for single page applications) and any backend MVC framework; although there will not be a full-fledged render, but search robots will not have to wait for my first fetch, since the data will be delivered initially, for example, through the data attribute. But in this case, I plan to choose Svelte (Sapper) and Ruby on Rails as the stack, although I think this is not important.
Thank you for your attention to the question!
Are there tools that allow, for example, to use the components of the frontend framework as components of the MVC backend framework, so that one server does the rendering without unnecessary requests?
If that's what you want you can install a frontend framework in Rails using webpacker. After that you will have a folder in your rails project that will contain your Svelte components. Then you import Svelte components in erb templates and pass data as props.
I have tried that approach but personally I prefer a separate frontend and backend talking through API calls. Then in your frontend you need something like Sapper if you need SSR. With webpacker you don't(assuming you mostly use Rails for routing).
If you are worried about authorization it's not really hard to implement. And after login you can store user info on local storage for instance for subsequent requests. But of course if you install with webpacker it's all done within Rails hence it's easier.
From my experience, using webpacker it's easy and quick in the beginning but you are more likely to get headaches in the future. With separate backend and frontend takes a bit more work, especially in the beginning, but it's smoother in the long run.
This helped me set the authentication between rails api and vue frontend.
So, if you wish to separate them, just install Rails as API only and I suggest you to use Jbuilder to build your jsons and serve them to the frontend as you need them.
I would like to integrate Rocket.Chat into my website. I found out, that I can embed RocketChat via iframe and customize the style with the built in "Embedded Layout". However I would like to so to say build my own Web-Frontend-Client for a Rocket.Chat-Server with PHP and jQuery. Is that possible? So let us say I have 2 VMs running on my server, one for my homepage, one for Rocket.Chat. Could I somehow access the Rocket.Chat Server via jQuery Websocket Connection or with the Rocket.Chat API and login users and get and write messages (private and channel)? If yes, is there any documentation or example on this out there? Thank you very much.
Hi I have made a web app to practice Meteor and am now trying to make a companion chrome extension. I am having difficulty finding resources on how to make AJAX calls to my meteor app/mongodb.
An example of what I am trying to do is find specific words on a webpage and search them in my mongodb.
Any resources or information on how to best do this would be appreciated.
I suppose you know how to make Ajax call from client. So you are having difficulty in building a REST API in Meteor. Although it is not recommended to build a REST API with Meteor, you can still do it. If you use case just require a REST API and does not have much to do with reactivity, I think you should not go with Meteor, just Node and Express should be fine.
But if you really want to use Meteor, here is the solution: Meteor has a package named webapp which let you handle HTTP requests, that is enough for building a simple REST API. If you API is more complex, check out this community package nimble:restivus it has a better API and useful functions
OK Planing to Build small twitter App with Kendo UI . just wondering if that mean part of the app will be hosted in my server in order to get that work ?
I don't want host any part of the app at the server . i want this App to work directly Forward and backward from the app at user Device to twitter API
Please don't tell me it's just script will be hosted and the App that going to be created with Phonegap or whatever is just a Browser . Please don't tell me that
I am not sure I understand your question right but you can create a JavaScript only (no-server side code required) twitter client. You can embed all required JavaScript files and deploy them using PhoneGap.
In Scala's Liftweb there are some classes which allow for Javascript to be pushed to the browser via comet/ajax after the page has loaded. Some documentation here.
The usage could be for example when someone submits a form to the server, the form would submit via AJAX and then some Javascript can be sent from the server to the client to show some error message. Well this is just for example, there are better ways to do form validation.
Is there any way to push Javascript from the NodeJS server to the client to do updates? Any standard way to do this? Why I want to do this is that its nicer to have all client and server code located in one server file.
Also as a secondary question, can I access the page data from the server side? It would be nice to be able to query a page element from the server side or query some page data from the server side.
You can build this functionality into socket.io, either by predefining functions based on dynamic objects that are sent bi-directionally, or by building a system which will parse and run javascript from both sides. Depending on what you are trying to do it might take a while to get that working for you securely (not just throwing everything in eval());
http://socket.io/
Alternatively there is a library built on node.js that has this functionality built in. I have not personally used it so I can't attest to the reliability or security of the system, but it should be a good place to start.
http://www.nowjs.com/
https://github.com/Flotype/now
Hope this helps!