Chapter 3. Having Two-Way Conversations
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating a simple chat room
- Managing the socket life cycle
- Emitting a private message to another socket
- Sending messages to all the sockets, except for the sender
- Building a multiplayer tic-tac-toe game
Introduction
Although we can perform some interesting things with one-way communication, the real power of Socket.IO begins to show when the client and server are both participants in a constant dialog.
In this chapter, we will work through various examples of two-way Socket.IO communication. We will implement various tactics to make bidirectional communication work for our specific needs.
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