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Justin Halsall 08ab7ab452 re-use live mode config - and improve docs on how to start liveMode (#1003)
* Use config.liveMode to turn on liveMode in the timer

* Discussion of `startLive(1500)` was incorrect as startLive is based on timestamps, not playback offsets.  Also reorder to introduce `addEvent` earlier

Co-authored-by: Eoghan Murray <eoghan@getthere.ie>
2022-09-17 14:40:15 +08:00

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Real-time Replay (Live Mode

If you want to replay the events in a real-time way, you can use the live mode API. This API is also useful for some real-time collaboration usage.

When you are using rrweb's Replayer to do a real-time replay, you need to configure liveMode: true and call the startLive API to enable the live mode.

const ANY_OLD_EVENTS = [];
const replayer = new rrweb.Replayer(ANY_OLD_EVENTS, {
  liveMode: true,
});
replayer.startLive();

Later when you receive new events (e.g. over websockets), you can add them using:

function onReceive(event) {
  replayer.addEvent(event);
}

When calling the startLive API, there is an optional parameter to set the baseline time. By default, this is Date.now() so that events are applied as soon as they come in, however this may cause your replay to look laggy. Because data transportation needs time(such as the delay of the network). And some events have been throttled(such as mouse movements) which has a delay by default.

Here is how you introduce a buffer:

const BUFFER_MS = 1000;
replayer.startLive(Date.now() - BUFFER_MS);

This will let the replay always delay 1 second than the source. If the time of data transportation is not longer than 1 second, the user will not feel laggy.