I am learning web socket in JS and trying to make simpliest chat app. I dont know why, but on message event doesn’t work for server socket.
Can you explain whats wrong?
There are 3 files:
- server.js
- client.js
- client.html
And I running server.js with node and client.html with VS Code live-server, so the address is http://127.0.0.1:5500/src/client.html
server.js
const WebSocket = require("ws");
const PORT = 9999;
let wss = new WebSocket.Server({ port: PORT });
wss.on("connection", (client) => {
client.send(`[server] ${new Date()}: hello new client`);
});
wss.on("message", (message) => {
console.log(`message from client: ${message.data}`);
});
client.js
const client = new WebSocket(`ws://localhost:${9999}`);
client.onopen = () => {
console.log("[client] connecting...");
};
client.onmessage = (message) => {
console.log(`${message.data}`);
};
function PING() {
console.log("[client] sending PING...");
client.send("PING");
}
client.html
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<button onclick="PING()">PING</button>
<script src="./client.js" defer></script>
</body>
</html>
Tried different things from other answers. It didn’t help.
>Solution :
where you have
wss.on("connection", (client) => {
client.send(`[server] ${new Date()}: hello new client`);
});
This is not returning a client object, it’s returning the new ws connection, so try this..
wss.on("connection", (ws) => {
ws.send(`[server] ${new Date()}: hello new client`);
ws.on('message',(msg) => console.log({ msg }));
});