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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
Book Image

Advanced Node.js Development

By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Advanced Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to progress as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developer’s toolkit. If you're looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side-project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book was written around a single goal: turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. There's no better time to dive in. According to the 2018 Stack Overflow Survey, Node is in the top ten for back-end popularity and back-end salary. This book is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book delivers advanced skills that you need to become a professional Node developer. Along this journey you'll create your own API, you'll build a full real-time web app and create projects that apply the latest Async and Await technologies. Andrew Mead maps everything out for you in this book so that you can learn how to build powerful Node.js projects in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. ES7 classes

As we discussed in the last chapter, we have our socket join listener but the problem is that the information inside the listener. It gets lost once the callback is complete, things like the username and the room name, they are not persisted anywhere. We're going to need that information to complete our event listeners. createMessage is going to need to know the user's name as well as the room name to send that message to the specific room, and same is the case with createLocationMessage. We'll discuss that in this chapter.

We'll start with learning the ES6 class syntax and using it in creating users class and some other methods. We'll also see wiring up the users list, updating the people list when any user joins or leaves the chat. We'll also look into sending messages to a specific room and not to all the users.