Glancer_Test
Val Town is a collaborative website to build and scale JavaScript apps.
Deploy APIs, crons, & store data – all from the browser, and deployed in milliseconds.
This directory has crons that extract data from Notion and save that data to blob storage in val.town. Blob storage functions like a cache.
Every /demo has an interval script that runs every second to poll the /cobrowse endpoint to see whether or not cobrowsing has been enabled for that demo. If it's enabled, the cobrowse button is live and blue. If cobrowsing is disabled, the user sees a call-to-action to contact Glance.
Hitting Notion every second would put excessive load on Notion and sometimes Notion is under load from other users at peak times. With this caching strategy, we don't have to hit Notion to check the status of cobrowing, because we hit the cache instead.
The cache is updated every minute by the cron in this directory.
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