How to Handle Nested Relations with js-data in a Real-Time App?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently building a real-time web application using js-data as the client-side data layer, and I’m running into challenges when it comes to managing nested relationships — especially when dealing with updates.

Specifically, I’m trying to:

Load and keep in sync a parent entity and its nested relations (e.g., User with multiple Posts and each Post with Comments)

Update nested entities (e.g., editing a single Comment) without triggering a full reload of the parent object

Ensure the changes reflect reactively across the UI with minimal data-fetching overhead

I’m using js-data with a custom adapter and a WebSocket-based API for real-time updates. I’ve looked through the documentation on relations and linkRelations, but I’m not entirely sure what the best practice is for updating nested records and keeping the store in sync.

Has anyone implemented this kind of nested, reactive structure successfully? Any patterns, code examples, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!