From the course: Node.js: Real-Time Web with Socket.IO
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- [Instructor] This course was an introduction to Socket.IO while building a chatroom, leveraging Express and Node as the base server. With this knowledge you should be able to apply it to any kind of real-time web application, like a Twitter feed, news feed, or a messaging application like the one we've built in this course. To explore Socket.IO further, the next step would be to set up a second server and explore in the documentation the concepts of using multiple nodes for load distribution. You could also, as mentioned in the course, take the current project further and add some front end fields to grab a username and implement it in the client server events. Finally, if you'd like to explore further what the APIs offer, beyond what we explored in this course, like mentioned in the previous video, Socket.IO site's documentation is well organized with examples. When in doubt, reach out to the slack channel or to stack exchange for Q and A. Socket.IO is a mature library with a…
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