Please can somebody explain the listener on the react extensions-boilerplate example

[BarryCarlyon]

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IF there are no message, shouldn’t the function’s log still show, as to know if it is working? Or will it only do the this.twitch.rig if there is a message?

The callback function only fires when a message is recieved.

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Edit: and another thing, If someone is sending me messages to the pubsub, then i don’t need an EBS, right? How would I listen to an EBS? I am sorry, it is very confusing and I’m going crazy. Is there a case when I would need to create the sockets myself.

You would be sending messages to Twitch PubSub, not “someone”

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And then on the other hand, what does an EBS do

EBS is just a fancy name for a “backend server”

if you are “creating sockets” yourself, then you’ll be connectiong to your Backend Server AKA EBS.

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is it mandatory to go through the pubsub?

No. using the PubSub makes it easier for your to scale. You send one message to Twitch, Twitch copies it to all connected users. So you don’t need to worry about scaling your socket yourself.