Building a real-time commenting app with Socket.io and React

1. Nodemon.io

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   Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development

   

   Nodemon is a package that will automatically restart our Node.js server after detecting any changes, making local development easy.

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3. Newman

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   Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

   

   It's worth checking at this stage that everything is working as expected. You can check out the endpoints we just added in an API testing tool like Postman. You should be able to create a new comment, and then retrieve the full list of comments with what we've built so far.

4. Socket.io

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   Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

   

   Our goal now is to add real-time support to our client and our server so that whenever a comment is posted, everyone viewing the comments page will receive the comment. This is where Socket.io is useful. We can add websocket support to our Node.js server, and have users connect to receive comments created in real-time.

5. React

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   The library for web and native user interfaces.

   

   In this guide, we'll walk through how to build a real-time commenting system using React, Node.js, and Socket.io. We'll show you how to build a list of comments fed from an API, create new comments, and broadcast comments in real-time to connected users using Socket.io.

6. node

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   Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

   

   In this guide, we'll walk through how to build a real-time commenting system using React, Node.js, and Socket.io. We'll show you how to build a list of comments fed from an API, create new comments, and broadcast comments in real-time to connected users using Socket.io.

7. Express

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   Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

   

   Express.js is a minimalist web framework for Node.js that provides a simple interface for building HTTP listeners as well as other functionality that makes it easy to build web applications in Node.js.

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   ⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️

   

   Next we're going to install any additional dependencies we need. In our case, we're just going to need date-fns which is a library that makes it trivial to work with datetimes in JavaScript.

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