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So, whatever we type, we see the same message to be sent. Let us fix it. We send messages with a POST method. In order to read this method from req, we need to work with it as with a stream. So, let us look at the following scheme that describes a request’s lifecycle, in particular of the req and res objects.

Hey all! The aim of our lesson for today is to learn how to create a Node.js chat. Our first chat will be rather simple.

Upon the file ending you will see the end event, in the handler of which we will end our response by calling res.end. Thus, the outgoing connection will be closed for the file has been completely sent. The resulting code is quite versatile:

Our next step will be using the streams to work with network connections. And we will start from delivering files to a visitor. As you may remember, we’ve already had a task like this: if a visitor requires the following url, you will give him the file. Let us create a file pipe.js with the following code (for your convenience, you can download code' lesson from the repository because we'll need an HTML file from there):

Всем привет! Цель этого занятия – научиться делать чат на Node.js. Для начала наш чат будет достаточно простой. Всего лишь каждый, кто заходит по этому url http://localhost:3000/ автоматически попадает в комнату, в которой может получать сообщения от другого пользователя, находящегося в этой же самой комнате, в нашем случае переписка может вестись из разных браузеров. Мы будем делать его в начале без пользователей, базы данных, авторизации.

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Нашим следующим шагом будет использование потоков для работы с сетевыми соединениями. И начнем мы с отдачи посетителю файлов. Если помните, у нас была такая задача: если посетитель запросит следующий url, то отдать ему файл. Создадим файл pipe.js со следующим кодом:

Hey all! Our topic for today is Data Streams In Node.js. We will try to learn all the aspects in details for the reason it turns out that on the one hand, common browser JavaScript development lack streams. And on the other hand, knowing and understanding stream principles is necessary for seamless server development because a stream is a versatile way of work with data sources universally used.