socket.io setinterval way

Question

I want to make a web page for give the client the news of his friends every 1 second using socket.io + node.js.

My codes :

Client :

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Answer 1

That's pretty much the standard way to do it. If you've not already looked the example apps page on socket.io, there's a beibertweet example that does just this using setInterval.

Also there's a slightly more advanced example on this blog.

Plus .. I found Ryan Dahls's intro on YouTube really useful for understanding the basics of node operation.

Hope that helps.