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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.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
