Advanced Node.js Development

Updating the chat.js and server.js files

Currently, the name User, the incorrect name we see inside of the browser that comes from socket.emit function in chat.js:

socket.emit('createMessage', {
  from: 'User',
  text: messageTextbox.val('')
}, function() {
  messageTextbox.val('')
});

The client originally sent the name but this is no longer going to be the case, the name is stored by the server so we're going to remove this as a required property from createMessage, we're just going to be sending the text across.

socket.emit('createMessage', {
  text: messageTextbox.val('')
}, function() {
  messageTextbox.val('')
});

Now with this in place we can modify the event listener over inside of server.js. Inside server.js, createMessage takes those two ...