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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Styling the chat page


In this section you're going to get some styles in place so our app looks a little less like an unstyled HTML page, and a little more like a real web app. Now in the following screenshot, on the left we have People panel, we're not going to be wiring that up yet although we are giving it a place inside of our page. Eventually this is going to store a list of all the people connected to the individual chatroom, that's going to come a bit later.

Over right side, in the main area is going to be the messages panel:

Now the individual messages are still unstyled, that's going to come later, but we do have a place to put all of that stuff. We have our footer, this includes our form for sending a message, the textbox, and the button, and it also includes our Send Location button.

Now to get all of this done we're going to add a CSS template that I've created for this project. We're also going to be adding some classes to our HTML; this is going to let us apply the various styles...

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