putting in check if there is activity in a chat which I haven't viewed

packages/common/models/conversation.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export default class Conversation {
 
   name: string; // engineering, general, arjun, jacob and rachel...
 
-  lastActivityDate?: Timestamp; // caching this for purpose of saving on listeners
+  lastActivityDate: Timestamp = Timestamp.now(); // caching this for purpose of saving on listeners
 
   activeMembers: string[]; // userIds
   membersInLiveRoom: string[] = [] as string[]; // all members in a live call right now for this convo

packages/web/components/Conversations/ConversationFullRow.tsx

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ import {
   FaCheck,
   FaAngleRight,
 } from "react-icons/fa";
+import { useRecoilValue } from "recoil";
+import {
+  allRelevantConversationsAtom,
+  checkIncomingMessageSelector,
+} from "../../recoil/main";
 import { MasterAvatarGroupWithUserFetch } from "../UserDetails/MasterAvatarGroup";
 
 export default function ConversationFullRow(props: {
@@ -19,12 +24,19 @@ export default function ConversationFullRow(props: {
     quickUpdateText = `${props.conversation.cachedAudioClips[0].senderUserId} spoke just now...`;
   }
 
+  // check if I am outdate on a certain conversation
+  const isNewIncoming = useRecoilValue(
+    checkIncomingMessageSelector(props.conversation.id)
+  );
+
   return (
     <span
-      className="py-5 px-4 border-t border-t-slate-200 flex flex-row hover:bg-slate-50 transition-all
-   items-center"
+      className="py-5 px-4 border-t border-t-slate-200 flex flex-row
+       hover:bg-slate-50 transition-all items-center"
     >
-      <FaCircle className="text-orange-500 mr-2 animate-pulse text-[0.75rem]" />
+      {isNewIncoming && (
+        <FaCircle className="text-orange-500 mr-2 animate-pulse text-[0.75rem]" />
+      )}
 
       <span className="w-[15rem] flex flex-row items-center">
         <MasterAvatarGroupWithUserFetch

packages/web/components/UserDetails/MasterAvatarGroup.tsx

@@ -107,14 +107,11 @@ export function MasterAvatarGroupWithUserFetch(props: {
 
   const resultUsers: User[] = [] as User[];
 
-  console.log(listOfOtherUsers);
   listOfOtherUsers.forEach((oUser) => {
     if (relContactsMap.has(oUser)) {
       resultUsers.push(relContactsMap.get(oUser)!);
     }
   });
 
-  console.log("fetched users for frontend: ", resultUsers);
-
   return <MasterAvatarGroup listOfUsers={resultUsers} {...props} />;
 }

packages/web/recoil/main.tsx

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ export enum RecoilActions {
   LIVE_ROOMS = "LIVE_ROOMS",
   RELATIVE_TIME_SECTIONS_CONVOS = "RELATIVE_TIME_SECTIONS_CONVOS",
 
+  CHECK_INCOMING_MESSAGE = "CHECK_INCOMING_MESSAGE",
+
   ALL_RELEVANT_CONTACTS = "ALL_RELEVANT_CONTACTS",
   RELEVANT_CONTACTS_SELECTOR_CACHE = "RELEVANT_CONTACTS_SELECTOR_CACHE",
 
@@ -62,12 +64,12 @@ export const allRelevantConversationsAtom = atom({
   key: RecoilActions.ALL_RELEVANT_CONVERSATIONS,
   default: new Map<string, Conversation>(),
   effects: [
-    ({ onSet }) => {
-      onSet((newMap) => {
-        //go through and make sure that our relevant user's cache is up to date
-        //  const allUsersInConvos = newMap.values()
-      });
-    },
+    // ({ onSet }) => {
+    //   onSet((newMap) => {
+    //     //go through and make sure that our relevant user's cache is up to date
+    //     //  const allUsersInConvos = newMap.values()
+    //   });
+    // },
   ],
 });
 
@@ -196,6 +198,42 @@ export const RelativeTimeSeparatedConvosSelector = selector<
   },
 });
 
+export const checkIncomingMessageSelector = selectorFamily({
+  key: RecoilActions.CHECK_INCOMING_MESSAGE,
+  get:
+    (convoId: string) =>
+    ({ get }) => {
+      const currConvosMap: Map<string, Conversation> = get(
+        allRelevantConversationsAtom
+      );
+
+      const currUserConvoMembersMap = get(allUsersConversationsAtom);
+
+      // true if our last interaction date is < lastActivityDate
+      const currConvo = currConvosMap.get(convoId);
+      const currUserConvoAssoc = currUserConvoMembersMap.get(convoId);
+
+      if (!currConvo || !currUserConvoAssoc) {
+        return false;
+      }
+
+      if (!currUserConvoAssoc?.lastInteractionDate) {
+        return true;
+      }
+
+      if (
+        currConvo.lastActivityDate.toDate() >
+        currUserConvoAssoc.lastInteractionDate?.toDate()
+      ) {
+        return true;
+      }
+
+      return false;
+
+      // todo: if it's incoming and it's in done/archive, then move it into the inbox by updating userConvoMember relationship
+    },
+});
+
 // map cache of all relevant users
 // get all of the users in all of the conversations, once through a simple service call
 export const allRelevantContactsAtom = atom<Map<string, NirvanaUser>>({