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---
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id: 589fc831f9fc0f352b528e76
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title: Handle a Disconnect
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challengeType: 2
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forumTopicId: 301552
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dashedName: handle-a-disconnect
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---
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# --description--
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You may notice that up to now you have only been increasing the user count. Handling a user disconnecting is just as easy as handling the initial connect, except you have to listen for it on each socket instead of on the whole server.
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To do this, add another listener inside the existing `'connect'` listener that listens for `'disconnect'` on the socket with no data passed through. You can test this functionality by just logging that a user has disconnected to the console.
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```js
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socket.on('disconnect', () => {
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/*anything you want to do on disconnect*/
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});
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```
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To make sure clients continuously have the updated count of current users, you should decrease the currentUsers by 1 when the disconnect happens then emit the 'user count' event with the updated count!
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**Note:** Just like `'disconnect'`, all other events that a socket can emit to the server should be handled within the connecting listener where we have 'socket' defined.
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Submit your page when you think you've got it right. If you're running into errors, you can check out the project completed up to this point [here](https://gist.github.com/camperbot/ab1007b76069884fb45b215d3c4496fa).
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# --hints--
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Server should handle the event disconnect from a socket.
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```js
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(getUserInput) =>
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$.get(getUserInput('url') + '/_api/server.js').then(
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(data) => {
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assert.match(data, /socket.on.*('|")disconnect('|")/gi, '');
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},
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(xhr) => {
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throw new Error(xhr.statusText);
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}
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);
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```
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Your client should be listening for 'user count' event.
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```js
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(getUserInput) =>
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$.get(getUserInput('url') + '/public/client.js').then(
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(data) => {
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assert.match(
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data,
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/socket.on.*('|")user count('|")/gi,
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'Your client should be connection to server with the connection defined as socket'
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);
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},
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(xhr) => {
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throw new Error(xhr.statusText);
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}
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);
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```
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# --solutions--
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```js
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/**
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Backend challenges don't need solutions,
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because they would need to be tested against a full working project.
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Please check our contributing guidelines to learn more.
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*/
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```
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