Build Real Time Chat Rooms With Node.js And Socket.io 

Thank you! I think I need to sacrifice a goat to the RU-vid algorithm gods or something along those lines to go viral 😜

@@WebDevSimplified Yeah, there is a serious problem with your channel, Kyle. I can't listen to anyone else anymore :)

@@WebDevSimplified can you please help me with uploading this to heroku?

Idk how many subs you had a year ago but now dear sir you are at nearly 500k subs. Thanks very much for the great tuts and hope your channel grows even more!

Thabk you so much. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you for the support. My channel is already growing at a crazy fast rate in my opinion and I am incredibly thankful for everyone that watches my videos.

@@WebDevSimplified Great Update, so glad to hear ! Looking forward for more contents....

You're welcome! I am really glad you found it useful. I had a lot of fun making this video since chat rooms are fun to make.

I hope you enjoyed it.

@@WebDevSimplified You and Dev Ed are two guys who have been very helpful to me. Thank you.

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed this video and I hope you love the React course.

Thanks!

Thanks! Ed is awesome.

@@WebDevSimplified So are you ! 😃

Most overlooked channels on yt tbh, should be as popular as traversy

@@tyrrelldavis9919 Thank you! One day I will be up there with Brad, but he started long before me and is still absolutely killing it with amazing tutorials. I hope to be able to help as many people as he has one day.

THANKSSSSS

I'm glad you enjoyed it

Thank you!

I am glad you resonate with my teaching style. I try to cut out all the unnecessary fluff and useless information to keep the learning per minute of my videos as high as possible.

@@WebDevSimplified learning per minute xd

I have an entire full stack Node.js course on RU-vid if you want a bigger Node.js project.

@@WebDevSimplified yup , i study it all .. i am asked for another one :)

@@artzdesign2352 I will see what I can do. Thay project took me 3 months to build/record and I am in the middle of a react project right now.

Thank you for your response i have solved my problem related to your comment

Good job

It is really fun to work with.

Thanks!

Thanks

The best way to handle that situation would be to use a database to store users. Then you could also store whether or not the user was banned inside that database as well. One option, if you wanted to ban users from a single room would be storing rooms/users in their own tables and then have a third table that has the id of the user/room they are banned from.

@@WebDevSimplified How do we use a database?

You can pretty easily. A private chat is just like a room but it is a room that ties directly to another users socket id. The docs for this library have a section on private rooms.

@@WebDevSimplified Yeah I also wondered I'll do it that way, but still wanted to be sure... Thanks :)

You're welcome

What do you mean?

@@WebDevSimplified like have the server running and chat app open on my pc and then probably chatting with my friend who is on his pc

As long as you host the site from this video on a place like heroku you can do that.

@@WebDevSimplified OK thanks!

@@WebDevSimplified I've tried to use heroku by myself but just got error after error. Could you do a tutorial on that or point me to a video?

idk same here

I'm not sure if I will expand upon this series in particular but I may make a separate chat room series in the future.

@@WebDevSimplified well ok but its kinda urgent if you have enough time please help me i know that being a youtuber is hard. So if you have time to do a vid please do. Thanks for the reply.

@@meteachesprogramming9395 It won't be something I tackle anytime soon. I am incredibly busy and do not have time for a full project based video like that.

Thanks!

You would need to add the messages to a database like MongoDB

You're welcome!

I have been planning to make a video on basic unix commands, but haven't gotten around to planning it out yet.

me neither

Its EJS, you need to get that npm package

That is what SSL is for

request a password for creating rooms? and just give that pass to the professor

It sounds like you need to enable https on the site. I have never used that site so I am not sure.

are you sure you installed socket.io correctly? glitch has in-build node.js at projects with "package.json" file. you must just go it and click on add package, type socket.io, click on 1st result(install button of 1st result) and you're done now follow video

Got the solution

FILENAME must be actual filename

If you are using a db you will need to heavily modify how the data is saved but you are correct in saying you need to import the model instead of using a local variable. Yes. You need to use process.env.PORT if you want to deploy this so your port will be dynamic. You can also set it to a default fallback by doing process.env.PORT || 3000. If you remove the localhost:3000 section and just leave it as /socket.io/socket.io.js it should work.

you came in a wrong place then

Mihnea Aleman I can try to help

@@alg2x please help me

@@alg2x I am facing problem uploading the code..can you please help me?

Ankit Dutta hm sure do u have discord

@@alg2x Can you help me as well? Haha I have a Discord

They can if you host the site somewhere with a domain. They cannot access your localhost though.

Obviously, no one can trouble-shoot your code without seeing it, but if I were to guess, I would say that there are 2 things that are most likely the source of your problem. 1. Hopefully you noticed that some ( but not all ) of those ejs tags have an equal sign on the left-hand side. One misplaced equal sign is a disaster in the world of ejs. But honestly, if you downloaded the code from Git Hub, and they didn't run either, this is probably not your problem. Because presumably, the Git Hub files would be correct. 2. Another possibility is outlined in a great article that you can find on the Internet. I will describe it so you will know what to expect. This guy tells you to get a picture of a kitten.jpg so that you can find out which statement you need to use to fix your problems. Then he gives you 3 choices. You try choice 1, and test it with the kitten picture. Then you try choice 2, and test it with the kitten picture. Then you try choice 3, and test it with the kitten picture. For me, choice 3 was the one that worked. You have to put the kitten in a certain folder, and then try each choice, one at a time. The name of the article is: "Serving static files in Express", and you can find it here: expressjs.com/en/starter/static-files.html By the way, he tells you that you need to use the "path" module, from Node.js, but he never tells you to "require" the path Module. Without "path", choice 3 ( which I mentioned above ) will never work.

what error is this