An alternate chat
You can find an excellent tutorial on how to build a chat application that is similar to ours using Express.js and Socket.io at http://socket.io/get-started/chat/.
In fact, the example that we used here is inspired by this one, though we have modified it in order to make it suitable for the book.
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