Displaying location info from websocket

server/handlers.js

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+import { broadcast } from './ws.js';
+
 const handlers = {
     updateLocation(req, res) {
-        console.log("req received")
+        const { name, latitude, longitude, timestamp } = req.body;
+        console.log(`Received location: (${name}, ${latitude}, ${longitude}) at ${timestamp}`);
+        broadcast("update-location", { name, latitude, longitude, timestamp });
+        res.json({ success: true });
     }
 }
 

server/index.js

@@ -4,15 +4,14 @@ import http from 'http'
 import chalk from 'chalk'
 import moment from 'moment'
 import path from 'path';
-import httpProxy from 'http-proxy';
-const proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({});
-import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+import { initWebSocket } from './ws.js'
 
 import Database from "./db.js"
 import AuthHandler from './auth.js';
 import handlers from "./handlers.js";
 
 // Get __dirname in ES6 environment
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
 const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
 
@@ -130,6 +129,7 @@ class Server {
         app.use('/', router);
 
         const server = http.createServer(app);
+        initWebSocket(server);
         const PORT = 3008;
         server.listen(PORT, () => {
             console.log("\n")

server/ws.js

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { WebSocket, WebSocketServer } from 'ws';
+
+let wss;
+
+export function initWebSocket(server) {
+    wss = new WebSocketServer({ server });
+
+    wss.on('connection', (ws, req) => {
+        console.log('✅ New WebSocket client connected');
+
+        ws.on('close', () => {
+            console.log('Client disconnected');
+        });
+    });
+
+    console.log('WebSocket server initialized');
+}
+
+// Broadcast a message to all connected clients
+export function broadcast(reqType, data) {
+     if (!wss) return;
+
+    const payload = typeof data === 'string' ? data : JSON.stringify(data);
+    const message = `${reqType}|${payload}`;
+
+    wss.clients.forEach(client => {
+        if (client.readyState === WebSocket.OPEN) {
+        client.send(message);
+        }
+    });
+}