paint-io-server

Paint app server for the websockets workshop

Getting Started

$ npm install
$ npm start

Workshop

⭐️ this github repository because it will help the needy.

ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | cut -d\ -f2

One team member should clone paint-io-client and the other should clone paint-io-server.

$ git clone https://github.com/goldhand/paint-io-client.git

or

$ git clone https://github.com/goldhand/paint-io-server.git

Inline instructions can be found in the src/socket.js. Each task is marked by as TODO x.x [description]. You should not need to make any changes outside of the src/socket.js.

What's my network ip?

$ ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | cut -d\  -f2

Steps (with goals)

1. Make the paint application collaborative using socket.io

• Dispatch events to the Socket server
• Receive events from the socket server

2. Maintain a list of active users

• Sync data across multiple clients
• Use an acknowledgement in the emit call

3. Open private chat with a single user

• Send messages to single target

Optional

• Demonstrate usefulness of client / server node architecture with flow type
• Creating chat rooms
• Scaling horizontally
• At amazon