Chapter 10. Adding Real-time Chat
In the previous two chapters, we extended our social network by adding new features to create pages and share posts. In this chapter, we will discuss real-time communication between users in the system. The technology that we are going to use is called WebSockets. The plan for this part of the book is as follows:
- Getting to know WebSockets
- Bringing Socket.IO to the project
- Preparing the UI of the chat area
- Exchanging messages between the client and the server
- Sending messages to the user's friends only
- Customizing the output of the chat
Getting to know WebSockets
WebSockets is a technology that opens a two-way (bidirectional) interactive channel between the server and the browser. By using this type of communication, ...
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