Advanced Node.js Development

Testing the messaging events

I'm going to start up the server inside the Terminal using the nodemon server/server.js command:

Inside the browser, we can now open up two tabs, both at localhost:3000. For both tabs, I am going to open up Developer tools, since that's currently the graphic user interface for our application. We don't have any forms just yet, which means we need to use the Console tab to run some statements. We'll do the same thing for a second tab:

Notice that as soon as we open the tabs, we'll get New user connected messages ...