Advanced Node.js Development

Adding the Send Location button to the application

To get started what we're going to do is add a new button to our application. It's going to sit alongside of Send and it's going to say something like Send Location. When the user clicks that Send Location button we're going to use the geolocation API. Usually, this is going to require the user to confirm they want to share their location with this tab in the browser, that pop-up box is going to happen, it's going to be triggered by the browser, there's no way around that.

You're going to need to make sure the user actually wants to share their location. Once you have the coordinates you're going to emit an event, that's going to go to the server, the server is going to send it to all the ...