s-infinity21/nodejs-socket.io-v2.0

This is the modified version of my previous socket programming project where we can select various private rooms and multiple user can create a group. Work is on progress...

nodejs-socket.io-v2.0

Features

Socket.IO enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. It consists of:

• a Node.js server (this repository)
• a Javascript client library for the browser (or a Node.js client)

Its main features are:

Reliability

Auto-reconnection support

Multiplexing support

Room support

Installation

npm install socket.io

Documentation

Please see the documentation here.

Note: Socket.IO is not a WebSocket implementation. Although Socket.IO indeed uses WebSocket as a transport when possible, it adds some metadata to each packet: the packet type, the namespace and the ack id when a message acknowledgement is needed. That is why a WebSocket client will not be able to successfully connect to a Socket.IO server, and a Socket.IO client will not be able to connect to a WebSocket server