⚡ Hive dApps Dev Update - Distriator 🚀 Supercharging Business Loading with Lightning Speed ⚡

Words
534
Reading
3 min
Listen
Play
1y

Hello Hive Community Members 🐝💜,

Today’s update is all about Distriator – our cashback-powered Hive dApp! With Distriator, you spend Hive Dollars 🪙 at a whitelisted business ➝ open the app ➝ claim instant cashback 💸. Easy, right? Well... not always 😅. Let's dive into the dev updates!


🤯 Problem Statement

we have a problem sagar meme gif

  • Feedback from starkerz@starkerz: "Claiming takes too long!"
  • Current flow = app checks consumer Hive account history, business Hive account history, verifies posts, post details, and THEN rewards cashback.
  • All that blockchain detective work 🔍 slows down the process... leaving users hanging like "ummm... 👀".

🕵️‍♂️ Let's Break It Down

Let's break it down meme gif

  • When a user launches the app, it loads ALL businesses.
  • This alone pulls 3-4 MB of data 😱.
  • Naturally, that slows things down ⌛.
  • So, step 1 ➝ make business-loading much, much faster.

🗂️ Caching to the Rescue

cache meme

  • Tried pagination 📑 … but it turned out just as slow. ❌
  • New idea: Cache data locally!
  • Instead of downloading everything again and again, store it in the app. Refresh only when needed.
  • But then came the million-dollar question 😎: "How do we keep cache in sync with the server?"

🔄 Data Sync Like a Pro

Data Sync cat dancing meme

Solution: We added 3 magical attributes to the database 🪄

  • 🗑️ isDeleted ➝ easily detect deleted records.
  • ✏️ modifiedAt ➝ track updates smoothly.
  • 🌱 createdAt ➝ spot new entries instantly.

Added those attributes - screenshot


💻 MongoDB Query Superpowers

  • New query: fetch only businesses modified after a specific date.
  • This avoids breaking production logic 🙅.
  • Added an extra function for the data-sync capability.

👉 Screenshot of query:

Added mongodb query in repository - screenshot


🎯 New API Route /modified-after

  • A safe new API route introduced ➝ /modified-after.
  • Pass the date-time-stamp in ISO8601 format 📅.
  • Response: only the modified records after that date. Perfect for sync! ⚡

Screenshot for code of new API route


📜 Documentation Love 💖

Because devs love docs 📚— we updated API documentation too!
Anyone can now implement the sync system easily.

API Documentation screenshot


🚀 What's Next

  • Backend ✅ done!
  • Next ➝ integrate this shiny new API into frontend / web-app 🎨.
  • Once live ➝ business loading = super-fast speed boost 💨.
  • Stay tuned for the React.js integration post coming soon!

Thank you for tuning in to my Hive dev log 🙏🐝.


🎉 The Hive Hype Never Stops 🚂

  • 🙌 Keep Shopping & keep claiming with Distriator
  • 💝 Huge love to Hive fam 💜
  • 📈 Hive blockchain = 🚀🚀 … to the moon, Mars & beyond! ✨

Lots of love for hive meme

🔥 Until the next dev log — Keep building, keep Hiving 💜🐝


📝 Final Note

  • I asked ChatGPT/AI to help optimize this post to make it more readable and viewer-friendly.
  • Here is the link where you can find both original content & improvements made by AI
  • I'm supposed to add public link here

🚀 My Contributions to ♦️ Hive Ecosystem

ContributionToHiveEcosystem
Hive Witness NodeHive API Node (in progress)3Speak Video Encoder Node Operator (highest number of nodes)3Speak Mobile App Developer
3Speak Podcast App Developer3Speak Shorts App Developer3Speak Support & Maintenance TeamDistriator Developer
CheckinWithXYZHive InboxHiFindHive Donate App
Contributed to HiveAuth Mobile AppEcency ↔ 3Speak IntegrationEcency ↔ InLeo IntegrationEcency ↔ Actifit Integration
Hive Stats AppVote for Witness AppHiveFlutterKitNew 3Speak App

🙌 Support Back

❤️ Appreciate my work? Consider supporting threespeak@threespeak & sagarkothari88@sagarkothari88! ❤️

VoteForWitness
sagarkothari88sagarkothari88@sagarkothari88
threespeakthreespeak@threespeak

⚡ Hive dApps Dev Update - Distriator 🚀 Supercharging Business Load... | Ecency