I want to have a posts type. This type has a field called likes. If a user clicks in the ui to like a post then a mutation should be send to dgraph to increase the likes of that post by 1. Users should only be able to like a post once. Likes would be of type Int. After a post is liked a subscription…

This is a use case for a custom mutation backed by a Lambda that does this with DQL. Using DQL, you can read a value and perform a math operation and set the value all in a single transaction using upserts. The auto generated API aides with all simple CRUD operations, but what you are describing is …

How would you go about a real time liking a post functionality?

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jdgamble555 (Jonathan Gamble) December 6, 2021, 3:33am 4

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How would you go about a real time liking a post functionality?

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