Wiring up user list
In this section we're going to start wiring up that users class we created, and to kick things off, we're going to wire up the People
list, which means that we need to do something when a user joins, and when a user leaves. We want to keep that list up to date and every time we update it, we want to give a fresh copy of the list to the client. This means that the server is going to need to emit an event to the client, the client is then going to listen for that event and it's going to update the markup.
Now we can view exactly where this is going to happen by starting up the server with the following command:
nodemon server/server.js
Then, I'm going to head over to localhost:3000
and open up a chat page. I'm going to enter Andrew
for Display name
and LOTR
for Room name
. Now once we're in, we have our People
list, currently it should show us, since we are in the room, and when a new user joins it should automatically show that user:
Right now none of this is happening, but...