Node.js 8 the Right Way

Creating Socket Client Connections

So far in this chapter, we’ve explored the server side of Node.js sockets. Here we’ll write a client program in Node.js to receive JSON messages from our net-watcher-json-service program. We’ll start with a naive implementation, and then improve upon it through the rest of the chapter.

Open an editor and insert this:

networking/net-watcher-json-client.js

​'use strict'​;
​const​ net = require(​'net'​);
​const​ client = net.connect({port: 60300});
client.on(​'data'​, data => {
  ​const​ message = JSON.parse(data);
  ​if​ (message.type === ​'watching'​) {
    console.log(​`Now watching: ​${message.file}​`​);
  } ​else​ ​if​ (message.type ...