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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

Autoscrolling


If we're going to build a frontend we might as well do it right. In this section, we're going to add an autoscrolling feature. So if a new message comes in, it is visible inside of the messages panel. Now right away this is not a problem. I type an a, I hit enter, and it shows up. However, as we get further down the list, you'll see the messages start to disappear down the bottom of the bar:

Now I can indeed scroll down to see the most recent messages, but it would be nice if I'm automatically scrolled to the most recent message. So if a new message comes in like 123, I'm automatically brought to the bottom.

Now, obviously, if someone does scroll up to read an old message, we're going to want to keep them there; we're not going to want to scroll them to the bottom, that would be just as annoying as not being able to see the new messages in the first place. This means that we're going to go ahead and calculate a threshold. If someone can see that last message, we're going to go...

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