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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sending messages to room only


In the last section, we wired up that People list making sure that as new users come and go the list gets updated. In this section, we're going to make sure that our text and location messages only get sent to users in the same room. Currently, it gets sent to everybody. We can prove that by opening up a new connection, I'm going to use Mike and we're going to join a different room, The Office Fans works. When I join the room you can see that the People lists are indeed correct, a user in one room does not update the People list for a user in another room. The difference though is that the text messages do not follow those rules, neither do the location-based messages:

We'll have a text message and a location message as well, if I go over to the chat app for the other room we get both of those. And this is a problem. We also have the name problem, currently User displays for the text message and Admin displays for the location message, we want to make sure to...

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