What you'll learn
Build a simple, real-time log dashboard web application using Node, Express, and WebSockets. By building this application, you will gain experience using Node’s file system API for reading and writing files, WebSockets for real-time file updates, and Express for generating web pages.
Table of contents
- Set up your local environment for this project. We'll walk you through everything you need to know, including how to install and configure your environment to be able to complete all of the tasks.
- Configure the WebSockets server.
- Add a WebSocket-based log viewer window.
- Using a hard coded file path for the generated log file, display the log file in the log viewer window.
- Implement the file browser feature in order to select a log file dynamically.
- Implement the settings feature and add support for a log filter and default directory.
About the author
Tyler Griffiths is a software developer at Digicert where he builds asynchronous microservices using Java, Spring, Cassandra and Kafka. He holds both a Bachelor of Computer Science and an MBA. He loves all things that run on the JVM from Java to Grails and everything in between. When he's not building ridiculously scalable Java microservices, you can find him building bike jumps for his three boys, doing honey-dos for his beautiful wife and playing golf, usually in that order. When inspiration s... more
