WebSockets are the go-to technology for real-time web applications.
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a multi-room chat server with user presence using Node.js and the ws library.
The project features multiple chat rooms, real-time user join/leave notifications, broadcasting messages to specific rooms only, and tracking and syncing online users per room.
The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up the project and includes sample code for the WebSocket server and a client HTML page.