Introduction to Socket.IO: Building a Simple Chat App

1 · · July 9, 2019, 7:21 p.m.
In this article we’ll be exploring the basic of setting up a realtime chat app using Socket.IO. Since, for the sake of simplicity, we won’t be including any backend storage for our messages. Previously sent messages just won’t be visible by any new pages, to make it so that there’s no saved data to load in, but to learn more about setting up a simple backend for your data using Mongoose and the MongoDB Atlas database, you can check out my article here Prerequisites All we need is a basic underst...