Generating the newMessage object using the utility function

To generate newMessage, we are going to make a separate file that we load into server.js with a method we call instead of defining the object. Inside the server folder, we'll make a new directory called utils.

Inside utils we'll make a file called message.js. This will store our utility functions related to messaging, and in our case, we'll make a new one called generateMessage. Let's make a variable called generateMessage. This is going to be a function and will take the two arguments I talked about earlier, from and text:

var generateMessage = (from, text) => {
 
};

It will then return an object just like the objects we pass in as the second argument to emit in server.js. Now all ...

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