Strategy for creating a group messaging interface

[msavin]

Thanks for the help @copleykj @pdecrat

I thought about doing it on the data level, but I thought it might be too resources intensive, especially with how aggressive DDP and Tracker are when it comes to reactivity.

I ended up having each message component check the item that rendered before it, to determine if it should omit any data, such as name/avatar, or to potentially display some extra data, such as a title or something.

Here’s how that ended up working:

How to get the previous item in {{#each}} loop

Does anyone know how to get the previous item with-in an {{#each}} loop, or have any strategies for achieving this effect?