What is the best approach for providing the recent activity in a system

Question

I need to save the recent activity of a user in my system. Any idea how I can implement this? Links to any articles? Im using ExpressJS running on node as the server.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It depends which actions should be saved as user activity.
To handle GET / POST requests:

1. Create MySQL database named «activity» with the table «requests» in MySQL Workbench like this:

2. Install an official MySQL connector by typing

    npm install @mysql/xdevapi --save --save-exact

3. Open your index.js and put something like this:

    const express = require('express'); const mysqlx = require('@mysql/xdevapi'); const app = express(); function log(url) { mysqlx.getSession('dbLogin:dbPassword@localhost:33060').then(session => { session.getSchema('activity').getTable('requests').insert([ 'username', 'url' ]).values([ 'User', url ]).execute(); }); } app.get('/', (req, res) => { log(req.url); res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html'); }); app.get('/info', (req, res) => { log(req.url); res.sendFile(__dirname + '/info.html'); }); app.listen(3000);

For more detailed information like mouse / keyboard events, you can send POST request with AJAX ( see this answer for details ) or use WebSockets