1/12/2021 stream notes
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Plan for the morning
- Start on game itself!
- Get a React/Reagent frontend going
- Get a helloworld React example up: DONE 👍
- Set up a websocket server
- Get the frontend CSRF piece figured out - DONE, more or less 😅
- finish the backend setup - DONE, after a fashion 😅
- send a custom message from the FE to the BE
- what are we sending? a simple string, some fun hello world thing
- send a custom message to the FE from the BE
- Connect React clients to websocket server
- Send some simple messages/data back and forth
Do I understand web sockets? Let’s find out
- Important concepts
- EVENT: something that has happened either on the client or the server
- ID: This denotes which “client” (i.e. user) is sending or receiving an update
- web socket conenctions may not succeed or may drop over time
- it’s possible for the client to have state as well as the server
- callback functions available to execute after sending an event from client to server
