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Lesson 33. Capstone: Adding a Chat Feature to Confetti Cuisinex

At this stage, my application’s foundation is complete. I can continue to improve existing functionality or build new features. Before the application is released to production and made available for everyone to use, Confetti Cuisine asked me to add an interesting feature to engage users. Without hesitation, I tell them that this is a perfect opportunity to build a chat feature within their Node.js application. Because I don’t want to complicate the application too much before deployment, I’ll keep the chat simple.

The chat will allow only users with accounts to communicate with one another. Every time a message is sent, I’ll save the message and associate it with the sender behind ...