Question

I’m quite new to node.js, so my apologies if this is a potentially stupid question. I’m aware that when a new page is requested, it triggers a data event, which node can then handle accordingly; on my current project though, I have an html button that triggers a few events, but does not redirect the page. Because of this, node isn’t recognizing that this is occurring. Is there any way for me to detect this? Or even, as a workaround, is there any way to call one of my node functions from the javascript embedded in the web page?

Thanks~

Answer 1

you are mixing up two different things, the data event in node which you are talking of is triggered because a network connection is established when you point the browser to your website, data is received and sent from the client to the server and back.

this has nothing to do with clientside ui events, for example a click event on a button.

if you want node to recognize a click on your button you have to send something to the server, you can either use a form, issue an ajax request or use websockets.

for ajax requests with jquery : jquery $.ajax documentation

a popular websockets implementation for node.js is socket.io