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Reviewing the JavaScript client code

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Reviewing the JavaScript client code

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- [Instructor] The JavaScript file, websocket.js and its associated webpage, chat.html are both stored in the root directory for chapter six. Copy the JavaScript file to Public Scripts, so we're gonna do a Command + C to copy it, gonna go to Hello Crow, go to public, go to scripts, and do a Command + V, and we'll go back, copy the chat.html, Command + C, go to the public folder and do a Command + V, now we have both of those files. Let's go ahead and go back to Atom, open up websocket.js. Web Socket is a communication protocol which enables real-time data transfer between a client and server over a single TCP channel. Web Socket uses both the WS and WSS protocols for Web Socket and Web Socket Secured. Crow supports both protocols. In order to use Web Socket in the browser, we will need a client written in JavaScript. Don't worry, it's less than 40 lines of code. The first line of our client websocket.js creates the URL to the server's Web Socket implementation, so we are getting the…

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