Ask HN: How does Roam Research “call home”?

  • They're using websockets I believe.

    Look in the network tab for .ws (hosted on Firebase). You can inspect the messages using Chrome. It sends updates for every change to a block you make.

  • A websocket? I'm assuming that once the websocket is open, any future traffic inside wouldn't be logged in the developer tools?

  • Websockets probably. The built JS contains references to both WebSocket and Firebase.