Adding Real-Time Bidding Capabilities to the Marketplace

In a world more connected than ever before, instant communication and real-time updates are expected behaviors in any application that enables interaction between users. Adding real-time features to your application can keep your users engaged, and because of that, they will be spending more time on your platform. In this chapter, we will learn how to use the MERN stack technologies, along with Socket.IO, to easily integrate real-time behavior in a full-stack application. We will do this by incorporating an auctioning feature with real-time bidding capabilities in the MERN Marketplace application that we developed in Chapter 7, Exercising MERN Skills with an Online Marketplace, and Chapter 8, Extending the Marketplace for Orders and Payments. After going through the implementation of this auction and bidding feature, you...