Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

The net.Server Object

You use the net.Server object to create a TCP socket server and begin listening for connections to which you will be able to read and write data. The Server object is created internally when you call net.createServer(). This object is intended to represent the socket server and handles listening for connections and then sending and receiving data on those connections to the server.

When the server receives a connection, the server creates a Socket object and passes it to any connection event handlers that are listening. Because the Socket object implements a Duplex stream, you can use it with the write() method to stream writes of data back to the client and a data event handler to stream data from the client.

To create ...