dynamoid VS react-use-websocket

To interact with the Dynamodb table I used a gem called dynamoid. I created a Connection model in order to use it like Connection.create(connection_id) and Connection.find(connectionId).delete.

There is a lot more to learn about the Dynamoid gem, but hopefully, this is enough to get you started playing around. I encourage you to check out the official GitHub page here to read more about the features available to you!

Working with DynamoDB in Ruby can be painful compared to how easy it is to configure and use SQL databases via ActiveRecord. Fortunately there's a way to speed things up thanks to Dynamoid gem which introduces ActiveRecord-like abstractions for interacting with DynamoDB.

I chose React as the library to implement the UI and I used some libraries like react-chatbot-kit for the chat component and react-use-websocket to manage the connection with the backend API.

And with a library like React useWebSocket, something like this:

useWebSocket is an open source module with 1.2K stars (so you know it’s popular), and it provides a well-thought-out hook to establish a WebSocket connection and manage the connection lifecycle.