How do I send a private message to another user through sockets?

[derick.007]

I have seen the tutorials of sockets in all types of messages, like emit, broadcast and direct message. But I haven’t seen a private message feature. I want to build a whatsapp like clone to send message to a selected particular user. How can I build this using sockets ?

And one bug is also there. While performing an action using action flows in front-end nodejs I cannot see the socket events variables.

[tvh8]

It’s really a shame no one has responded to help you with this. I am also researching the same thing. Did you by chance figure it out? If I manage to I will reply to this thread - wish me luck!

[George]

This article might help you:

[NodeJS] Real Time Private Message Example

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