Zulip has had a small use of WebSockets (specifically, for the code
path of sending messages, via the webapp only) since ~2013. We
originally added this use of WebSockets in the hope that the latency
benefits of doing so would allow us to avoid implementing a markdown
local echo; they were not. Further, HTTP/2 may have eliminated the
latency difference we hoped to exploit by using WebSockets in any
case.
While we’d originally imagined using WebSockets for other endpoints,
there was never a good justification for moving more components to the
WebSockets system.
This WebSockets code path had a lot of downsides/complexity,
including:
* The messy hack involving constructing an emulated request object to
hook into doing Django requests.
* The `message_senders` queue processor system, which increases RAM
needs and must be provisioned independently from the rest of the
server).
* A duplicate check_send_receive_time Nagios test specific to
WebSockets.
* The requirement for users to have their firewalls/NATs allow
WebSocket connections, and a setting to disable them for networks
where WebSockets don’t work.
* Dependencies on the SockJS family of libraries, which has at times
been poorly maintained, and periodically throws random JavaScript
exceptions in our production environments without a deep enough
traceback to effectively investigate.
* A total of about 1600 lines of our code related to the feature.
* Increased load on the Tornado system, especially around a Zulip
server restart, and especially for large installations like
zulipchat.com, resulting in extra delay before messages can be sent
again.
As detailed in
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/12862#issuecomment-536152397, it
appears that removing WebSockets moderately increases the time it
takes for the `send_message` API query to return from the server, but
does not significantly change the time between when a message is sent
and when it is received by clients. We don’t understand the reason
for that change (suggesting the possibility of a measurement error),
and even if it is a real change, we consider that potential small
latency regression to be acceptable.
If we later want WebSockets, we’ll likely want to just use Django
Channels.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
This commit was automatically generated by `tools/lint --only=eslint
--fix`, except for the `.eslintrc.json` change itself.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulipchat.com>
With webpack, variables declared in each file are already file-local
(Global variables need to be explicitly exported), so these IIFEs are
no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
perfect-scrollbar replaces both the appearance and the behavior of the
scrollbar, and its emulated behavior will never feel native on most
platforms. SimpleBar customizes the appearance while preserving the
native behavior.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
This commit adds `stream_ui_updates.js` module. This module
will includes functions which will update different ui elements
(i.e. subscription button, subscriber count).
ESLint currently forbids using extends in the override block, ie
```
{
"extends": ["plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended"]
}
```
so we just have to add them manually for now.
See https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/8813 .
This adds a new realm_logo field, which is a horizontal-format logo to
be displayed in the top-left corner of the webapp, and any other
places where we might want a wide-format branding of the organization.
Tweaked significantly by tabbott to rebase, fix styling, etc.
Fixing the styling of this feature's loading indicator caused me to
notice the loading indicator for the realm_icon feature was also ugly,
so I fixed that too.
Fixes#7995.
Apparently, we didn't have one of these, and thus had a moderate
number of generally very old violations in the codebase. Fix this and
clear the ones that exist..
We move all of its logic into settings_sections.
Note that this is slightly more than a refactor.
We are slightly more aggressive about resetting
sections. For example, if you go into Settings,
then exit the overlay, then go into Manage
Organization, we will now reset sections for both
groups.
This small modules nicely breaks down the
responsibilities of topic_list and stream_list
when it comes to zooming in and out of topics
(also known as hitting "more topics" or "All
Streams).
Before this, neither module was clearly in
charge, and there were kind of complicated
callback mechanisms. The stream_list code
was asking topic_list to create click handlers
that called back into stream_list.
Now we just topic_zoom set up its own click
handlers and delegate out to the other two
modules.
This module makes it really easy to create are-you-sure
dialogs for dangerous operations.
Basically it's one function with five parameters. You
give three chunks of HTML, a callback function, and
a parent container.
The first use of this will be in settings_user_groups,
coming up in a couple commits.
This is part of work to break some of our
nastier circular dependencies in preparation
for our es6 migration.
This commit should facilitate loading leaf-like
modules such as people.js before all of the things
that reload.js depends on.
We add a padded div to our container for the buddy
list to give scrolling the illusion that we've
rendered every list item, while still letting
the browser do the heavy lifting instead of trying
to fake it out too much.
We probably should have done this a while ago, even
though these functions are pretty tiny. The goal here
is to make it easier to have more consistent search
semantics.
Our first use case is subs.js. In this case we
are able to decouple a bit of generic string
matching from the subs-specific code.
Also adds the file to the static asset pipeline.
search_pill_widget.js will be used to access the pills object for
the search query box. It will act in a similar way to
compose_pm_pill.js. Why is this needed: Consider you've initiated
a pills object in search.js for the search query box. Now you want to
also access that pills object to pre-populate pills after a reload in
hashchange.js. search_pill_widget.js makes this easy without the use
of events.
This implements right-to-left message automatic detection support in
the compose box as well as the message feed. Full unit tests and
support in the message-editing UI are for future work (as are
potentially more fancy things like supporting things like
right-to-left multi-word names for users/streams/etc.).
Fixes#3123.
This commit fixes some modules that were erroneously left out while
transitioning app.js to webpack. This commit exposes them using
expose-loader or setting them directly to window.
Anders Kaseorg
Thomas Ip
Wyatt Hoodes
Priyank Patel
Vishnu Ks
Anders Kaseorg
Yashashvi Dave
sahil839
Steve Howell
Tim Abbott
Joshua Pan
Shubham Padia
Rhea Parekh
Shayan Toqraee
Armaan Ahluwalia