Building a Chat App - Intro to WebSockets

Published: 19 September 2023
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Part One of the Building a Chat App series provides an Intro to Websockets. We'll look at how websockets provide realtime communication by building a monorepo with a Node.js server and a frontend app.

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Building a Chat App - Intro to Websockets

(00:00) Intro
(00:10) Welcome
(00:31) Lesson Goal
(00:38) What are WebSockets?
(01:24) Install Node.js & confirm
(02:34) Start the Monorepo
(02:53) Set up server & dependencies
(04:46) Building the WebSockets server
(06:44) Building the frontend app (client)
(13:59) Running the server & client
(15:44) Displaying messages in the server terminal
(17:54) Multiple Client connections

📚 Tutorial References:
🔗 Node.js Official Site: https://nodejs.org
🔗 MDN WebSockets: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...

⚙ Dependencies:
🔗 ws: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ws

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