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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

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Now that we have our People list in place and our messages are only getting sent to the users in the same chatroom, we are done. But that doesn't mean you have to stop developing the chat app, students always like to add on new features.

I'd like to give you a few ideas as to what you can build right now. You might get stuck while adding these features. It might be a real pain in the neck and it might take forever, but I promise you're going to learn so much along the way when you're doing something on your own. Now you have all the skills to do these features so let's just go down the list really quick.

  • One awesome idea would be to make chatrooms case-insensitive. Currently, if I go to LOTr with a lowercase r, I'm not actually in the same chatroom as my friend who's in LOTR uppercase R. It would be nice if regardless of case we were all in the same room.
  • Next up, I'd like to make usernames unique. Currently, I can copy the URL and paste it in a new tab, and now I have two...
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