Realtime refresh data

[marc-encawa]

For me an the most of my clients it will be important to have the ability that data refreshes realtime. With no manually refreshing a page. That is important for dashboards where you as a planner for example can see, which coworker is in an actual client task and which is free to get a task by the planning worker and much more reasons to have this working. On YouTube I saw a video, that Noloco provides this with some seconds difference between Airtable and its frontend. Am I the only one, who is looking forward that this will be a upcoming feature?

[Ben]

You’re not the only one:

Airtable data not sync live

For anyone who’s been building with Softr since the beginning, it’s clear that Softr is not efficient at improving existing essential features and deploying new features at the same time. Conditional Forms 2024 Improved Account Management (ex. Changing users emails, 2025) Secure user onboarding (ie. Email validation, authentication 2025) These were just a few requests by many builders here in the community back in 2020-2021! If Softr’s “Goals” are on implementing Softr’s own Workflows and …

[acjnas]

I just wonder how does noloco actually does it. Airtable limits the number of api calls per plan, how does noloco guarantees to not run out of api credits, fetching tables every something seconds looking for updated records is probably not the ideal approach, how does it do it??

How fast are these real time syncing between noloco and airtable data. just imaging querying 50 tables every few seconds cheking for updating records. I don’t get it.

[marc-encawa]

I just know, that they are basicly syncing the tables like a copy. So your Noloco frontend is feeded by Nolocos copytable. Would be a way for me. Anyway would be a nice decision when it’s working because in many cases I will need this. Also notificiations…

[Ben]

It may have something to do with this from Airtable:

Caching

One approach for managing Airtable’s rate limit is using a caching mechanism to handle a high volume of read and list requests. Some developers choose to host a server running an API proxy that fetches and caches Airtable data. This approach can spread your requests over a longer period, helping you avoid hitting the API limits.

Managing API usage is crucial to ensure smooth and uninterrupted interactions with your Airtable data. By implementing the above-mentioned strategies, you can stay within the rate limit and optimize your API operations.

[bopper]

+1 - Launched this week and already my staff are justifiably upset that when they load a page with Metric stats, it is not the most up to date data.

This is a confidence killer for any app. Please remedy this.

[marc-encawa]

With Softr DB I’ve realtime refresh now but with metric charts for example just when the page is reloaded, that’s correct.