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Sending real-time notifications with Socket.io in Node.js

Nevo David on July 18, 2022

How do websites work? A user provides a URL to the web browser. The browser sends a request to the web server, asking for resources rel...
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Nevo David

Happy to hear about a project you made involving websockets

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Krisztián Maurer

I made a Youtube downloader with real time download progress view: my blog post

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Nevo David

Looks good! Maybe you can also do a managed version with public api :)

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Nevo David

Awesome! Just had a look at your project.
You have put the websockets area in the www, happy to hear the motivation behind that, why not just a js file?
Funny to look at a 7 years old code and see that not a lot changed today 😇

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Andrew Baisden

Love using Socket.io.

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Nevo David

Me too!
Have you built something with socket.io lately?

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Nevo David

I would expect pong 🤣
But that's better!

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Nevo David

Ping?

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Nevo David

How do you use websockets? Do you use Socket.io?

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Nevo David

New Post: Core Team vs. Contributors 🚀
dev.to/novu/core-team-vs-contribut...

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New Post: Create a notifications system using in-app (bell icon) and emails
dev.to/novu/create-a-notifications...