In this section, we'll be creating a real-time chat application using Node and Socket.io. We'll be writing a small amount of code with Node.js and the Express framework, but it's all the same JavaScript that you know and love.
Run the following in your Terminal to create a new project:
# Create a new Vue project
$ vue init webpack-simple vue-chat
# Navigate to directory
$ cd vue-chat
# Install dependencies
$ npm install
# Run application
$ npm run dev
We can then create a server folder and initialize a package.json for server-specific dependencies like so:
# Create a new folder named server
$ mkdir server
# Navigate to directory
$ cd server
# Make a server.js file
$ touch server.js
# Initialise a new package.json
$ npm init -y
# Install dependencies
$ npm install socket.io express --save
