How do I fetch the latest transaction without using Zero MQ stream on a specific address?

Question

When I make a simple request like shown in the iota workshop: https://github.com/iota-community/javascript-iota-workshop - 2.2-fetch-hello.js the newest transaction is not fetched but a random one. How can I fetch the newest transaction?

Answer 1

I didn't click the link to the workshop. The way I would do it is to use the getTips api call. This will return all tips including old stale one.

However, by examining the IRI code we can see that we have FIFO list that keeps the tips, so I believe that the first one will be the newest transaction...

Note that if the node tries to solidify a path, then the newest transaction the node receives may not necessarily be a tip.