streaming posts. also moved topics to be entirely client side parsed. made some changes. added block level caching to templates. added a prepare method to templates

public/src/ajaxify.js

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ var ajaxify = {};
 			current_room = 'global';
 		}
 
-
 		var url = url.replace(/\/$/, "");
 		var tpl_url = (url === '' || url === '/') ? 'home' : url.split('/')[0];
 		

public/src/templates.js

@@ -7,7 +7,15 @@ var templates = {};
 		//quick implementation because introducing a lib to handle several async callbacks
 		if (callback == null && ready_callback) ready_callback();
 		else ready_callback = callback;
-	}
+	};
+
+	templates.prepare = function(raw_tpl, data) {
+		var template = {};
+		template.html = raw_tpl;
+		template.parse = parse;
+		template.blocks = {};
+		return template; 		
+	};
 
 	function loadTemplates(templatesToLoad) {
 		var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
@@ -24,6 +32,7 @@ var templates = {};
 
 					template.prototype.parse = parse;
 					template.prototype.html = String(html);
+					template.prototype.blocks = {};
 
 					templates[file] = new template;
 					
@@ -49,6 +58,8 @@ var templates = {};
 
 	//modified from https://github.com/psychobunny/dcp.templates
 	var parse = function(data) {
+		var self = this;
+
 		function replace(key, value, template) {
 			var searchRegex = new RegExp('{' + key + '}', 'g');
 			return template.replace(searchRegex, value);
@@ -62,6 +73,8 @@ var templates = {};
 			data = template.match(regex);			
 			if (data == null) return;
 
+			if (block !== undefined) self.blocks[block] = data[0];
+
 			data = data[0]
 				.replace("<!-- BEGIN " + block + " -->", "")
 				.replace("<!-- END " + block + " -->", "");

public/templates/topic.tpl

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	</ul>
 </div>
 
-<ul class="post-container container">
+<ul id="post-container" class="post-container container">
 <!-- BEGIN posts -->
 <li class="row">
 	<div class="span1 profile-image-block">
@@ -63,6 +63,28 @@ socket.on('event:rep_down', function(data) {
 	adjust_rep(-1, data.pid, data.uid);
 });
 
+socket.on('event:new_post', function(data) {
+	var html = templates.prepare(templates['topic'].blocks['posts']).parse(data);
+
+	jQuery('<div></div>').appendTo("#post-container").hide().append(html).fadeIn('slow');	
+});
+/*
+jQuery('document').ready(function() {
+	setTimeout(function() {
+		//console.log(JSON.stringify(templates['topic'].blocks));
+		var html = templates.prepare(templates['topic'].blocks['posts']).parse({
+				'posts' : [
+					{
+						'username' : 'derp'
+					}
+				]
+			});
+
+		jQuery('<div></div>').appendTo("#post-container").hide().append(html).fadeIn('slow');
+		
+	}, 1500);
+});
+*/
 function adjust_rep(value, pid, uid) {
 	var post_rep = document.getElementById('post_rep_' + pid),
 		user_rep = document.getElementById('user_rep_' + uid);

src/posts.js

@@ -92,12 +92,38 @@ var	RDB = require('./redis.js'),
 		Posts.create(uid, tid, content, function(pid) {
 			RDB.rpush('tid:' + tid + ':posts', pid);
 
+
 			socket.emit('event:alert', {
 				title: 'Reply Successful',
 				message: 'You have successfully replied. Click here to view your reply.',
 				type: 'notify',
 				timeout: 2000
 			});
+
+			user.get_user_postdetails([uid], function(user_details) {
+				user.get_gravatars_by_uids([uid], 80, function(gravatars) {
+					var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
+
+					socket.broadcast.to('topic_' + tid).emit('event:new_post', {
+						'posts' : [
+							{
+								'pid' : pid,
+								'content' : marked(content || ''),
+								'uid' : uid,
+								'username' : user_details.username[0] || 'anonymous',
+								'user_rep' : user_details.rep[0] || 0,
+								'post_rep' : 0,
+								'gravatar' : gravatars[0],
+								'timestamp' : timestamp,
+								'relativeTime': utils.relativeTime(timestamp),
+								'fav_star_class' :'icon-star-empty' 
+							}
+						]
+					});
+				});
+			});
+
+			
 		});
 	};
 
@@ -117,7 +143,6 @@ var	RDB = require('./redis.js'),
 			
 			if (callback) callback(pid);
 		});
-
 	}
 
 

src/webserver.js

@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ passport.deserializeUser(function(uid, done) {
 		res.send(templates['header'] + templates['403'] + templates['footer']);
 	});
 
+
+
 	// Basic Routes (entirely client-side parsed, goal is to move the rest of the crap in this file into this one section)
 	(function() {
 		var routes = ['', 'login', 'register'];
@@ -131,17 +133,14 @@ passport.deserializeUser(function(uid, done) {
 		}
 	}());
 	
-
+	// Complex Routes
-	function generate_topic_body(req, res) {
+	app.get('/topic/:topic_id/:slug?', function(req, res) {
-		global.modules.topics.generate_topic_body(function(topic_body) {
+		res.send(templates['header'] + '<script>templates.ready(function(){ajaxify.go("' + 'topic/' + req.params.topic_id + '");});</script>' + templates['footer']);
-			res.send(templates['header'] + topic_body + templates['footer']);
+	});
-		}, req.params.topic_id);
-	}
-	app.get('/topic/:topic_id', generate_topic_body);
-	app.get('/topic/:topic_id*', generate_topic_body);
 
 
 
+	// These functions are called via ajax once the initial page is loaded to populate templates with data
 	function api_method(req, res) {
 		switch(req.params.method) {
 			case 'home' :
@@ -173,7 +172,7 @@ passport.deserializeUser(function(uid, done) {
 			case 'topic' :
 					global.modules.posts.get(function(data) {
 						res.send(JSON.stringify(data));
-					}, req.params.id, req.user.uid);
+					}, req.params.id, req.user.uid || 0);
 				break;
 			default :
 				res.send('{}');