May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
110 pages
2h 7m
English
We have seen how the client works and how we can send the data to the server and receive it from server. Now we will see how we can make our own server code handle the messages.
Using modern web technology, we will explore the implementation of the WebSocket server using Node.js. Node.js is a very friendly, lightweight, and easy-to-use platform. So let's see how we can make our own WebSockets server.
The Node.js server gives us a lot of flexibility to create our own server. There are many library packages available via NPM. We will be using a library created by Einar Otto Stangvik which basically handles general mechanisms, such as upgrading the HTTP protocol and others. It is a very robust, clean, and lightweight ...