Advanced Node.js Development

Testing the incoming messages

Let's go ahead and test things out over inside Google Chrome. I'm going to refresh tab 1, and when I do you can see our two messages, Welcome to the chat app shows up and Frank says Hi:

Now Welcome to the chat app should show up. The Frank Hi message is coming from socket.emit inside index.js:

socket.emit('createMessage', { 
  from: 'Frank', 
  text: 'Hi' 
}, function (data) { 
  console.log('Got it', data); 
}); 

We can actually go ahead and remove that, we no longer need to automatically emit messages since we have a form set up to get that done for us. Once again we can save the file, refresh the browser and this time ...