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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Book Image

Advanced Node.js Development

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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

Adding a join page


The goal for this section is to add a join page like the one you see in the following screenshot, where you provide a name and you provide the room name you want to join.

You'll then be able to join a given room, talk to anybody else in that room and you won't be able to communicate with other people in other rooms:

This means that when you click on this form, you're going to click on Join and we're going to have some custom information passed into the URL into the chat application as we know it, the one that looks like this:

Updating the HTML file

Now in order to get that done, the first thing we're going to do is tweak the current HTML file. Right now, index.html is going to load first. We actually don't want that to be the case, when we go to localhost:3000 we want to show our new join page. So what I'm going to do instead is move this page by renaming it. We're going to rename index.html to chat.html. I'm going to do the exact same thing with index.js, renaming it to chat...