ws not sending message to wss server

I updated this drastically becasue I have a new approach but am still getting errors in a particular I am getting this error. This is running nod eone a ec2 instance

MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 message listeners added to [WebSocket]. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit

This is my app, any time I put a ws call inside of a app.get or app.post I get this error, If I just put it outside those it works. Not sure why

const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const port = 8080;
const WebSocket = require("ws");
const url = "wss://g6q51519w2.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Prod";
const ws = new WebSocket(url);
var EventEmitter = require('events');


const ee = new EventEmitter()
ee.setMaxListeners(0);

ws.on("message", function incoming(data) {
    console.log(data);
  });


var hmm = {action:"sendmessage", data: "hello world"}

ws.on("open", function open(){
  ws.send(JSON.stringify(hmm))
})

app.get("/", (req, res) => {
  //var test = { action: "sendmessage", data: "hello world" };

  //ws.on("open", function open() {
    //ws.send(JSON.stringify(test));
  //});



  ws.on('error', (error) => {
    console.log(error)
  });

  res.send("Hello World!");
});

app.post("/doorbell", (req, res) => {
  var hmm1 = {action:"sendmessage", data: "hello world from post request"}

  ws.on("open", function open(){
    ws.send(JSON.stringify(hmm1))
  })
        res.send("heya hey");

});

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${port}`);
});

[lpinca]

You can do something like this:

app.post('/doorbell', (req, res) => {
  var hmm1 = { action: 'sendmessage', data: 'hello world from post request' };

  if (ws.readyState === WebSocket.OPEN) {
    ws.send(JSON.stringify(hmm1));
    res.send('heya hey');
  } else {
    res.send('The WebSocket connection is not open');
  }
});

[wispyco]

yeah sorry about that I orignally posted here and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64868510/express-node-js-webssockets-is-recieving-messages-from-websocket-server-but-not but I really appreciate your help. I will close this