How does Roam Research “call home”?

Question

I&rsquo;ve been trying to figure out how Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/) sends data back and forth from and to the server.The app seems very responsive, and when I add/omit/edit objects, there&rsquo;s nothing under the Network tab in Chrome&rsquo;s dev tools.How is RR doing this? I noticed IndexedDB instances but deleting them didn&rsquo;t seem to affect anything.

m11a · Accepted Answer

They're using websockets I believe.Look in the network tab for .ws (hosted on Firebase). You can inspect the messages using Chrome. It sends updates for every change to a block you make.

Nextgrid · Answer

A websocket? I'm assuming that once the websocket is open, any future traffic inside wouldn't be logged in the developer tools?

dylz · Answer

Websockets probably. The built JS contains references to both WebSocket and Firebase.