# Shared real-time views

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/shared-real-time-views/6753>\
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**Created:** [June 29, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/shared-real-time-views/6753 "2022-06-29T04:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![LYPratt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/lypratt/32/6678_2.png) [@LYPratt](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/LYPratt)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/shared-real-time-views/6753/1 "2022-06-29T04:43:27Z")

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Hi all,  
New to observable the last couple of days. Really liking it, bought a paid subscription, off to the races, thanks!

But…my use case (at fdl.ai, check us out) requires that people viewing our notebooks can not only see code changes in real time, but also graphical view changes in real time.

Is this on the Observable road map? Is it available now via some workaround? Please advise, this is critical path this week.

Thanks!  
-L

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**Author:** ![enjalot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/enjalot/32/5248_2.png) [@enjalot](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/enjalot)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/shared-real-time-views/6753/2 "2022-06-29T14:04:47Z")

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By seeing graphical changes in real time, do you mean that what each user sees is based on the same shared state/data (in real time)?

There have been some interesting 3rd party developments around this, namely Convex and Firebase:

> **[Hello Convex Beta](https://observablehq.com/@ballingt/hello-convex-beta)**
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> How do you get shared, reactive server-side state for an Observable notebook? There are many ways: AWS, firebase, a slick solution from Tom Larkworthy — and now there's one more, Convex. You can sign up for the Convex Beta at convex.dev. To use...

> **[Convex Chat](https://observablehq.com/@triptych/convex-chat)**
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> Trying out the Convex chat demo in Observable. Type a username you'd want to use in the Name field Type your message in the Message field Hit Send Message Watch the table automagically update!! From demo...

> **[Chat application with Firebase on Observable (Twitch)](https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/chat-application)**
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> This is the notebook I used when doing an Observable Twitch stream! None of this will work unless you signin at the bottom because we added security :) However, I had added the option to signin in anonymously so you don't need to give up your email...

[https://observablehq.com/search?query=firebase](https://observablehq.com/search?query=firebase)

Do these help?

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**Author:** ![tomlarkworthy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/tomlarkworthy/32/5940_2.png) [@tomlarkworthy](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tomlarkworthy)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/shared-real-time-views/6753/3 "2022-06-30T10:27:27Z")

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I did a livestream recently which is all about streaming IoT data to dashboards/whatsapp/duckdb for AgTech

As each build on the previous one you can see the live dashboard in the latest

> **[Building a SMART FARM EP04: Firebase to DuckDB SQL](https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/firebase-to-duckdb)**
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> So far our SMART FARM has data storage provided by Firebase (EP01), and it is actively ingesting data from real farms in Colombia using Blues Wireless cellular connection (EP02). We are able to send dashboards to field workers on-demand using...

This is _actual_ data from greenhouses in Colombia