React
JavaScript
iOS
Flutter
Node
Python
Ruby
PHP
.NET
Go
Java
Serverside SDKsCreating Feed Groups
Feed Types
There are 3 feed types:
Based on these 3 basic feed types you can create your own feed groups.
‘Which Feed Groups Should I Create?’
We recommend that you create different feed groups for adding activities, and for consuming activities.
Flat are the only feeds that can be followed, and therefore are a good type to setup for adding activities. Flat can also be used to consume activities from other feeds - in a “timeline”-like manner.
Aggregated are good for consuming activities in an “aggregated”-like manner. You cannot follow an aggregated feed, but you may on occasion want to add activities to one.
The Notification type makes it easy to add notifications to your app. Notifications cannot be followed by other feeds - but you can write directly to a Notification feed.
For example, let’s say you are building a music app similar to Spotify. You may set up the following feeds like so:
"notification"(Notification): Displaying notifications from anything a user is following."user"(Flat): Adding activities from a user that can be followed."artist"(Flat): Adding activities from an artist that can be followed."playlist"(Flat): Adding activities from a playlist that can be followed."timeline"(Flat): Displaying "user", "artist", or "playlist" activities.
‘How Do I Create Feed Groups?’
New feed groups can be created in the Feeds section of the Dashboard. By default, we set up four feed groups for your project:
"user"(Type: Flat)"timeline"(Type: Flat)"timeline_aggregated"(Type: Aggregated)"notification"(Type: Notification)
These four groups cover the average use-cases for most applications. However, you can create any custom named feed group that serves your application needs.
Feed Group Permissions
There are three types of client-side Feed Permissions that a Feed Group can have
Private Permissions (example, Timeline Feeds)
Global Read (example, User Feeds)
Global Read/Write (no default example, see more below)
The access to these feeds is based on the ID of the feed matching the user_id in the claim on the JWT. For example, the feed “timeline:steve” can only be accessed client-side with a token with “user_id: “steve"" as one of the claims.