Create a Secure Chat Application with Socket.IO and React

tom lewis

Thanks for this post.
I got to the step where it says NPM start on the client and it says “compiled successfully” and says:

You can now view chat-client in the browser.
Local: http://localhost:8080
On Your Network: http://xx.xxx.xx.xxx:8080 (I replaced w “x”)

here is the thing, my server is a virtual server hosted by Dreamhost. I am obviously missing a very primitive piece of information but I dont understand what to do next. it appears the server and client are both active but…I dont even know what to ask next.

any guidance would be appreciated.