feat: implement real-time websocket activity feed ( #860)

[Tusharkhadde]

⚡ Feature: Real-time WebSocket Activity Feed (Tier 3 Bounty)

This PR implements a real-time, live-updating activity feed using WebSockets across both the Frontend and Backend domains. #860

What was added:

• 🔌 Backend WebSocket Server

  • Scaffolded a lightweight FastAPI + python-socketio ASGI server inside the backend/ directory.
  • Added a coroutine that actively simulates and broadcasts live activity events (bounty postings, review submissions, completions) to all connected clients.

• 📡 Frontend Socket Hook (useSocket.ts)

  • Integrated socket.io-client with a robust connection manager.
  • Handles graceful reconnects (up to 10 retries) and automatically falls back to HTTP long-polling if necessary.

• 🎛️ Activity Feed UI (ActivityFeed.tsx)

  • Live Status Indicator: Replaced the static header with a real-time connection status pill (green pulse for active, red for offline).
  • Interactive Filters: Added a sleek Notification Preferences panel that allows users to instantly toggle off specific noise (e.g., hiding reviews to only see bounties).
  • Framer Motion Animations: New real-time events smoothly slide into the feed using popLayout without jittering. The feed is securely constrained to the 20 most recent events to prevent DOM bloat.

Verification:

• Tested Socket.io event broadcasting and reception.
• Verified filter toggles dynamically slice feed content.
• Verified fallback to polling and offline reconnection states.

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[nagiexplorer88]

This does not hook into the backend entrypoint that the repo currently runs. The PR adds the new Socket.IO server in backend/main.py and exposes it as socket_app, but the existing backend container still starts uvicorn app.main:app from Dockerfile.backend.

Because this PR does not update that entrypoint to serve socket_app or move the Socket.IO setup into app.main:app, the normal backend deployment will keep running the existing FastAPI app without the new Socket.IO endpoint or the generate_mock_events() startup task. The frontend useSocket() hook can attempt to connect, but the deployed backend path will not emit activity_feed events, so the #860 real-time feed acceptance criteria are not met.

[Tusharkhadde]

Thanks for calling this out. You’re absolutely right, and this is on me.

I added Socket.IO in backend/main.py (socket_app), but our container still starts uvicorn app.main:app from Dockerfile.backend. So in the normal deployed path, we’re not actually serving the Socket.IO app or running the mock event startup task from that file.

That means the frontend socket hook can try to connect, but it won’t get activity_feed events from the runtime we actually deploy, so #860 isn’t fully met yet.

I’ll push a follow-up that wires Socket.IO into the real backend entrypoint path (the one the container actually runs) and verify events are emitted there end-to-end.

[Tusharkhadde]

I’ve pushed a fix that wires the deployed backend runtime to the Socket.IO ASGI app.

Updated in Dockerfile.backend:
from uvicorn app.main:app ...
to uvicorn main:socket_app ...
This ensures the same container entrypoint now serves the WebSocket endpoint and runs the startup_event task that launches generate_mock_events(), so activity_feed events are emitted in the real deployment path for #860

Fix commit: 51f986a