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Expand Up @@ -15,12 +15,14 @@ In order to send an event to everyone, Socket.IO gives us the `io.emit()` method

```js
// this will emit the event to all connected sockets
// put this code on index.js file
io.emit('hello', 'world');
```

If you want to send a message to everyone except for a certain emitting socket, we have the `broadcast` flag for emitting from that socket:

```js
// put this code on index.js file
io.on('connection', (socket) => {
socket.broadcast.emit('hi');
});
Expand All @@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ io.on('connection', (socket) => {
In this case, for the sake of simplicity we’ll send the message to everyone, including the sender.

```js
replace this line of code from index.js
io.on('connection', (socket) => {
socket.on('chat message', (msg) => {
io.emit('chat message', msg);
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