Bringing you a stable solution to running a socket.io server in a cluster environment, the solution is basicaly running a socket.io server on the master and use socket.io-redis and socket.io-emitter to put it all together.
# Install
$ npm install reach-socket --savevar config = {
port : 5000,
origins : 'http://localhost:3000',
redis : {
host : 'localhost',
port : 6379
}
}var ssl = {
active : false, // If set to false the server will run in http
certs : {
path : 'path/to/ssl',
key : 'certification.key',
cert : 'certification.crt',
ca : [
'certification.crt',
'certification.crt',
'certification.crt'
]
}
},Before you can register the middleware you will need to initiate the socket.io server.
var socket = require('reach-socket');
socket.init(config, ssl);Direct
You can send emits directly from the socket once it has been initiated.
socket.io.emit('event', arguments);
socket.io.user('user_id').emit('event', arguments);KOA
Register the socket io instance as koa middleware.
app.use(socket.koa());
app.use(function *() {
this.io.emit('event', arguments);
this.io.user('user_id').emit('event', arguments);
});Express
Register the socket io instance as express middleware.
app.use(socket.express());
app.use(function (req, res) {
res.io.emit('event', arguments);
res.io.user('user_id').emit('event', arguments);
});Include socket.io client in your html, this should be directly accessible on your server domain with the assigned socket port.
<html>
<head>
<title>Front End Test</title>
<script src="http://localhost:5000/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Your HTML Body -->
</body>
</html>Once you got access to socket.io client you can connect and start receiving events.
var socket = io('http://localhost:5000');
socket.on('event', function (arguments) {
// ...
});Authenticate a user with the socket to enable private messaging
socket.emit('login', 'user_id');The MIT License (MIT)
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