Real-time commenting with @mentions enhances user engagement and community-building in web apps.
Building a real-time commenting system from scratch involves challenges in frontend and backend development.
Velt SDK simplifies real-time collaboration by providing components for live commenting, notifications, and mentions.
Prisma is chosen for handling complex data relationships in the commenting system.
Radix UI offers accessible components for UI design while ensuring flexibility via CSS in the app.
Clerk Auth integrates seamlessly with Next.js to manage user authentication and API route security.
The comment system architecture involves data storage, real-time data sync, API endpoints, authentication, input validation, and notifications logic.
Implementation using Velt includes authentication setup, provider configuration, and integrating real-time collaboration features.
Tests are set up for comment components and API endpoints, ensuring reliability and error handling.
Security best practices include authentication protection, input validation, secure user identification, handling safe responses, error management, and testing.