What is the best way to repeatedly retrieve data from PHP/MYSQL without using firebase?

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HI,

i have been stuck for a long time with the problem of making notifications on a site that I am building using polymer. Essentially, I have a PHP fiel which retrieves the notifications and serves them in a dropdown when the page loads. Brilliant.

However, I can't seem to be able to make a "true" notification feature, i.e actually refreshing the notifications when there is one. I have tried using setTimeout/setInterval along with the $.go() method in core-ajax, but then the site appears to crash,  and the animations become very sluggish(less than 1 frame a second).

I have tried looking on other places for solutions, but there does not seem to be any examples for making real-time applications with out using polymer. Is setTimeout/setInterval not meant to go with polymer, or am I just using it wrong?

Either way, tell me if you need more clarification or jsbin.

Thanks!

[Arthur Evans]

I think your best bet is to post this question on stackoverflow with a link to the code. (jsbin or otherwise). For a question like this, where the answer could be related to Polymer, JavaScript, or PHP, that's your best resource.

For questions like, "How does Polymer do X," "Why does Polymer do X," this mailing list is probably your best resource.

To answer the concrete question -- using setTimeout or setInterval shouldn't cause a problem with Polymer.

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