# MessageBus - How to setup Messagebus using Dart-Flutter
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/messagebus-how-to-setup-messagebus-using-dart-flutter/208649
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 9, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messagebus-how-to-setup-messagebus-using-dart-flutter/208649 "2021-11-09T09:08:55Z")
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### Author:  [@Sembauke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sembauke)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messagebus-how-to-setup-messagebus-using-dart-flutter/208649/1 "2021-11-09T09:08:55Z")
Hey Everyone,
I am making a mobile application that uses the Discourse to GET and POST data. At the moment, I am making a request every 30 seconds to see if there are new posts on a topic. This seems like it could potentially harm our forum by accidentally d-dosing ourselfs.
I have been looking for a good solution using WebSockets in Flutter, but no luck yet. For Discourse, I came across MessageBus, which has confounding documentation.
Yet we do have MessageBus setup on our forum as seen in this polling request:
So my question is if anyone has any idea how to solve this problem and has any experience using Message bus or Flutter Websockets.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messagebus-how-to-setup-messagebus-using-dart-flutter/208649/2 "2021-11-09T10:11:06Z")
MessageBus is an option - you can find client libraries for Ruby and JS here: [GitHub - discourse/message\_bus: A reliable and robust messaging bus for Ruby and Rack · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/message_bus)
But a simpler solution is probably to use Discourse’s WebHooks feature. That way, Discourse can make a web request to your endpoint whenever there is a new topic/post. You can find more information here:
> [@Configure webhooks that trigger on Discourse events to integrate with external services](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-webhooks/49045):
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> A webhook is a way to notify external services about changes on the internet. It’s easier to setup, manage and develop than a Discourse plugin. Though, it does require you to program a little bit or understand its technical details. In this #howto, I’ll set up webhook to power a Github bot for referencing pull request brought in a forum. We’ll want to see a new comment on Github pull request when a new post has a link to it. It’s a very simple process: Publish a new post. A webhook event happ…
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### Author:  [@bitmage](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitmage)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messagebus-how-to-setup-messagebus-using-dart-flutter/208649/3 "2025-02-27T00:08:21Z")
I don’t see how webhooks would be related or useful at all to a Flutter frontend.
It seems like what OP is looking for is a Dart implementation of the MessageBus client… which would probably have to be reverse engineered from [this Javascript code](https://github.com/discourse/message_bus/blob/ab67220a797388e12c980b14ced0cc87fc5a8bc9/assets/message-bus.js). Another alternative might be to run the Javascript code within Dart, and then wrap it in bindings to translate from Javascript to Dart. A direct port to Dart should be the more performant of these two.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. This isn’t something I’ve dug into, but I think the idea of a Flutter frontend is intriguing.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/messagebus-how-to-setup-messagebus-using-dart-flutter/208649/4 "2025-02-27T12:04:49Z")
> [@bitmage](#):
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> I don’t see how webhooks would be related or useful at all to a Flutter frontend.
The idea would be Webhooks → your backend → your app. So, the app wouldn’t be receiving the webhooks directly.