Real-time Dashboard

Hi Everyone,

I built a ordering system using Ci4 and it works great. Now I want to have a page where data is pulled real-time (orders) and display on a dash-board (not as a list but custom layout probably using div's).

I can auto refresh the page or pull the data via AJAX every 30sec. But I think there might be a better way of doing this.
Please do recommend a method of approaching this as I have not done a live dashboard before.

Thank you.

Here are afew good reads on it.

How to Create Real-Time SQL Dashboards

How to build a real-time dashboard with free JS libraries: a step-by-step guide

Creating Real Time Notification System in PHP and AJAX

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )

thank you insitefx. Will give it a try