stacker.news/components/use-live-comments.js
soxa a3c5a33bc4
Fix paginated comments button not showing on comment injection/creation (#2426)
* fix: also tick nDirectComments to respect pagination logic

* update nDirectComments only for the provided parentId

* explicit type conversion
2025-08-17 11:43:19 -05:00

127 lines
4.8 KiB
JavaScript

import preserveScroll from './preserve-scroll'
import { GET_NEW_COMMENTS } from '../fragments/comments'
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
import { SSR, COMMENT_DEPTH_LIMIT } from '../lib/constants'
import { useQuery, useApolloClient } from '@apollo/client'
import { commentsViewedAfterComment } from '../lib/new-comments'
import {
updateItemQuery,
updateCommentFragment,
getLatestCommentCreatedAt,
updateAncestorsCommentCount,
calculateDepth
} from '../lib/comments'
const POLL_INTERVAL = 1000 * 5 // 5 seconds
// prepares and creates a fragment for injection into the cache
// also handles side effects like updating comment counts and viewedAt timestamps
function prepareComments (item, cache, newComment) {
const existingComments = item.comments?.comments || []
// is the incoming new comment already in item's existing comments?
// if so, we don't need to update the cache
if (existingComments.some(comment => comment.id === newComment.id)) return item
// count the new comment (+1) and its children (+ncomments)
const totalNComments = newComment.ncomments + 1
const itemHierarchy = item.path.split('.')
// update all ancestors comment count, but not the item itself
const ancestors = itemHierarchy.slice(0, -1)
updateAncestorsCommentCount(cache, ancestors, totalNComments)
// update commentsViewedAt to now, and add the number of new comments
const rootId = itemHierarchy[0]
commentsViewedAfterComment(rootId, Date.now(), totalNComments)
// add a flag to the new comment to indicate it was injected
const injectedComment = { ...newComment, injected: true }
// an item can either have a comments.comments field, or not
const payload = item.comments
? {
...item,
ncomments: item.ncomments + totalNComments,
nDirectComments: item.nDirectComments + 1,
comments: {
...item.comments,
comments: [injectedComment, ...item.comments.comments]
}
}
// when the fragment doesn't have a comments field, we just update stats fields
: {
...item,
ncomments: item.ncomments + totalNComments,
nDirectComments: item.nDirectComments + 1
}
return payload
}
function cacheNewComments (cache, rootId, newComments, sort) {
for (const newComment of newComments) {
const { parentId } = newComment
const topLevel = Number(parentId) === Number(rootId)
// if the comment is a top level comment, update the item, else update the parent comment
if (topLevel) {
updateItemQuery(cache, rootId, sort, (item) => prepareComments(item, cache, newComment))
} else {
// if the comment is too deep, we can skip it
const depth = calculateDepth(newComment.path, rootId, parentId)
if (depth > COMMENT_DEPTH_LIMIT) continue
// inject the new comment into the parent comment's comments field
updateCommentFragment(cache, parentId, (parent) => prepareComments(parent, cache, newComment))
}
}
}
// useLiveComments fetches new comments under an item (rootId),
// that are newer than the latest comment createdAt (after), and injects them into the cache.
export default function useLiveComments (rootId, after, sort) {
const latestKey = `liveCommentsLatest:${rootId}`
const { cache } = useApolloClient()
const [latest, setLatest] = useState(after)
const [initialized, setInitialized] = useState(false)
useEffect(() => {
if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
const storedLatest = window.sessionStorage.getItem(latestKey)
if (storedLatest && storedLatest > after) {
setLatest(storedLatest)
} else {
setLatest(after)
}
}
// Apollo might update the cache before the page has fully rendered, causing reads of stale cached data
// this prevents GET_NEW_COMMENTS from producing results before the page has fully rendered
setInitialized(true)
}, [after])
const { data } = useQuery(GET_NEW_COMMENTS, SSR || !initialized
? {}
: {
pollInterval: POLL_INTERVAL,
// only get comments newer than the passed latest timestamp
variables: { rootId, after: latest },
nextFetchPolicy: 'cache-and-network'
})
useEffect(() => {
if (!data?.newComments?.comments?.length) return
// directly inject new comments into the cache, preserving scroll position
// quirk: scroll is preserved even if we are not injecting new comments due to dedupe
preserveScroll(() => cacheNewComments(cache, rootId, data.newComments.comments, sort))
// update latest timestamp to the latest comment created at
// save it to session storage, to persist between client-side navigations
const newLatest = getLatestCommentCreatedAt(data.newComments.comments, latest)
setLatest(newLatest)
if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
window.sessionStorage.setItem(latestKey, newLatest)
}
}, [data, cache, rootId, sort, latest])
}