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14. WebSockets

Christopher Pitt1 
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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
 

In the previous chapter, we started work on the front end. We set up a build chain and installed a few front-end frameworks. We’re now able to build Sass stylesheets and parse JSX!

In this chapter, we’re going to start to put that to use. We’ll set up WebSockets (from the server to the browser) and start to store and retrieve data through them. We’ll connect them to a React shopping cart and learn about how to manage state in a deeply-nested component hierarchy. Finally, we’ll use the checkout process to create orders.

Installing Socket.io

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