每 30 秒调用一次 api

Question

I am developing a room reservation app that interact with a third-party API. In order to make the app update most of the time, i need to make a GET call api to update the availability time every 30 seconds.

What i did is that i create a GET api call as normal and put it in an setInterval for 30 seconds.Its working but think about: there will be: 2880 api calls in a day. is that normal?

Do you think is that a good idea? Is there any best practice doing it?

Thanks

Answer 1

Why would you need to get live data every 30 seconds? Do you expect someone to make a booking trough this system every 30 seconds? Use caching instead.

If a customer makes a request you call the api, you can cache this response so another customer can share the same data if they come in the next 15 seconds or so. But if you don't get another customer for 15 minutes then all that polling is for nothing.