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Rupesh Krishna Jha
Rupesh Krishna Jha

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How to implement blocking and following user functionality in node.js as backend ??

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Theofanis Despoudis

Use a Set data structure ideally using Redis for checking membership, for example each user has a set of user ids as friends and a set of user ids as enemies. Now all the operations would involve using union find or intersection operations.

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Rupesh Krishna Jha

Great idea !! awesome , thanks a lot man ! ..
I got it .

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alkont

is there a way to do so with emails, in order to block a received mail?

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