We are going to develop a chat application using Express, Websockets. Tough you can use plain websockets but we would be using a library called Socket.io - which is wrapper around Websockets, its super easy to use and provies a fallback to xhr requests until the websocket connection is established.
The frontend-ui is based on Flexbox, no external UI libraries are used, so you can modify it as per your liking.
WebSockets are an alternative to HTTP communication in Web Application, they offer full-duplex communication, that is, it is, bi-directional and that means the data can flow in both ways, so it can flow from client to the server and also from server to the client.
Step 1: Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/trulymittal/chat-socket.io.gitStep 2: cd into the cloned repo and run:
npm installStep 3: Start the chat app (development mode)
npm run devStep 4: Start the chat app
npm startYou can fork this repo and send me a PR.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.