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Include user and course when posting a message

Include user and course when posting a message

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Include user and course when posting a message

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Hello and welcome. In this session, I will guide you through the process of enhancing our chat application. Our main goal is to ensure that when a user posts a message, it is intelligently linked to both the currently logged in user and the specific course chat room they are in. This is a fundamental feature for any multi-user, multi-room chat system, it allows us to correctly attribute messages and display them in the right context. We will be working on both the client-side form submission in our Next.js component and the server-side API endpoint that handles saving the message to the database. We will not use a server action for posting messages because it is not compatible with SSE events in Next.js. Okay, let's begin by importing a new hook from React. At the top of the file, I am adding useRef to the import statement from React. The useRef hook is a powerful tool that allows me to create a mutable reference to a DOM element. I'm going to use this to get direct access to our…

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