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"Hello world!" with socket messages
Install node modules
npm install express
npm install Socket ioclick below button to copy the code. By Socket tutorial team
Node.js server
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const server = app.listen(3000,console.log("Socket io Hello Wolrd server started!"));
const io = require('Socket io')(server);
io.on('connection', (socket) => {
//console.log("Client connected!");
socket.on('message-from-client-to-server', (msg) => {
console.log(msg);
})
socket.emit('message-from-server-to-client', 'Hello World!');
});click below button to copy the code. By Socket tutorial team
Browser client
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Hello World with Socket io</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="https://cdn.Socket io/Socket io-1.4.5.js"></script>
<script>
var socket = io("http://localhost:3000");
socket.on("message-from-server-to-client", function(msg) {
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = msg;
});
socket.emit('message-from-client-to-server', 'Hello World!');
</script>
<p>Socker.io Hello World client started!</p>
<p id="message"></p>
</body>
</html>click below button to copy the code. By Socket tutorial team
- In the above example, the path to the Socket io library is defined as /Socket io/Socket io.js.
Even though we didn't write any code to serve the Socket io library, Socket io automatically does that.