I've been having trouble for more than a week now while developing my chat app that allows users to send private messages. Unfortunately, the private message function is not working properly.
Let me provide you with the code that I'm using when a user wants to send a private message:
The code essentially checks if the intended recipient is online and retrieves their socket from the user dictionary. It then broadcasts the message to both the sender and the recipient.As for the client-side code:
In this section of the code, it verifies whether the message should be displayed on the receiver's screen or the sender's screen.To give you an idea about how the chat app handles new user connections, here is the relevant code:
Here, when a new user joins, we check if the username already exists in our list of users. If it does, we return false; otherwise, we add the user's nickname and socket to the system, update the list of nicknames, and emit the updated usernames to all connected sockets.Every time I attempt to send a message, it doesn't show up on the sender's screen but appears twice on the receiver's screen. Additionally, when a third user connects, any sent messages are only displayed on the third user's screen instead of between the original two users.