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Questions tagged [socket.io]

Socket.IO is a JavaScript library for realtime web applications. It enables realtime, bi-directional communication between web clients and servers.

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Node websockets

I have this code I use it for two things connect to lxd instances and emits any operation events it recieves over socket.io to the client Bridge between client and lxd for terminals Its pretty ...
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Filtering users in socket.io and seeing who is online

While implementing socket.io on my server, I ran into some problems and eventually fixed them. The code below is fired on the connection event of socket.io: ...
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Await socket Response

I wrote this to make the "callback hell" more manageable on the part of the coder when using Socket IO, so that there wasn't really any callback hell to go with, just a simple await. This should work ...
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Mini Tor implementation (“CLI only anonymous network”)

The goal of my project is to build a mini "anonymous" network (like Tor is) (command-line only) using Node.js and frameworks (socket.io / axios / express). A ...
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Socket.IO chat app with extra features

I added more features to a Socket.IO tutorial and wanted to know how I can improve my code. I have some questions about how it's built at the moment, especially when a client or the server should ...
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Link/Bookmark app Javascript Backend

This is the backend "API" in Socket.io for my links/bookmarks app. Error handling in this and verifying a path to the link seems pretty verbose. I want to improve this. ...
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NodeJS/Express/socket.io backend

I have the backend of a socket.io script running in NodeJS for a web application. A user can login to the site and join a project collaboration (group of users linked to a project). Each project has a ...
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How to ensure there is one Executor

I am using Socket.IO-java on the desktop application to handle realtime communication with the server. I was wondering if I could get some feed back on the setup as I am not happy with how it's done, ...
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Socket.io Node.js Object Oriented Code Structure Approach

following application: Users can join Rooms. A Gameroom inherits from Room and has a queue where Users can queue for a game. If enough people queue they get thrown into a game lobby. Lobby also ...
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Basic chat server and client using WebSocket

Based on Node.js in Action (Manning Publications) chapter 2 "Building a Multi-room Chat Application", I've taken the model they presented (which is all typical ES5 and jQuery) and completely rewrote ...
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Real time Tic Tac Toe game in Javascript using Socket.IO

This is my first attempt at building a full project. I've recently learned using prototypical inheritance in JS. Please tell me how I can improve the quality of this code. The game is available here:...
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Tracking stopped players and connecting them so they can interact

This file handles the player "stopping" in space, trying to find whoever is ahead or behind (also stopped) and joining everyone into each others stopping -rooms. I'm not too sure about the whole "each ...
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Passing sessions from express+passport to socket.io

I'm a node beginner and I'm trying to write fewer lines of code by finding out which lines are redundant. ...
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Online Snake v0.1 with Python-flask and socketio

What I am essentially doing is writing a snake game that everybody could play on the internet, broadcast their game if they like and so on. Now it looks like this, just websocket-based snake, no user ...
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Using Flask-SocketIO in conjunction with Flask-WTF / WTForms to provide realtime form validation feedback

I am working on a user login using Flask and the following extensions: Flask-Login, Flask-WTF, ...
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socket.io and garbage collection

I have developed a realtime text web app using socket.io that continuously displays text on the web page. When I run my code below with multiple clients connecting the memory usage for the V8 ...
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Chat application built with Node

In an effort to teach myself Node.JS and truly delve into its communication capabilities, I elected to recreate a previous chatting project. It took a bit of forethought to acclimate code to the ...
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Updating HTML table (Userlist) with Node.js

I currently have an HTML <Table> with all the socket.io-rooms. Client-side, the table gets fetched if you visit the page. If some room gets created or deleted,...
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Baking homemade pies has made me so many new connections

Sorry, if you were looking for fresh baked pies, I only have a web client to help you sell them. I've recently picked up server-side JavaScript and have added it to my toolbox, and while I've had a ...
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Node.js/Socket.io chat application

I would like to know how I can improve this chat application of mine. This has been my side-project for a while. I have made it to support on desktops, tablets and smartphones. GitHub link Online ...
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Pulling data quickly from mongodb with node.js

I am currently struggling with a request I am making to my server that is taking more than 4 seconds! I cut out a lot of the cruft to hopefully make it easier to read. Excuse my horrible variable ...
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File-sharing with sockets

I'm trying to get some confidence with RXJS and FRP. This code handles file sharing via socket.io. I need some advice about general RXJS style and reactive programming. ...
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Socket.io wrapper for an app with ReactJS components

I am upgrading a traditional jQuery based app by converting a few parts of it into ReactJs components and use Socket.io for the data transfer medium. There are a few React components spread across ...
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Realtime chat service

I am new to Node.js and Socket.io. I implemented a realtime chat service that has a chatroom feature. When the actual product is launched, there will be at least 200 concurrent users with 50 groups of ...
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Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe with Socket.io [closed]

I am trying to learn Socket.io and develop a multiplayer tic tac toe game. Right now, I have developed a game that plays well when hosted locally, but I cannot seem to transmit game moves between the ...
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Creating chat commands properly with Socket.IO

I am developing a chat program (mountreus-chat and GitHub) in Node.js using Socket.io and my code looks awful. I'm starting to use commands and now it's even worse. Here's a code snippet (you can ...
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Socket namespace for a chat module

I finally managed to work with socket.io namespace stuff which I'm using for building a chat module. Here, employees of multiple organizations can join and vhat with other employees of the respective ...
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Passing API data chunk per chunk to its socket clients every M seconds

Let's say that I want to query some API which will respond with array of random numbers: [4, ..., 17, ..., 25] To keep things simple enough, let's say that array has always 10 elements. For every ...
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Angular callback scope.apply

Usually the socket.io's on method is like this: socket.on('/msg', function(data){}); But in Angular that callback has to be ...
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Self-balancing robot

I am building a 3D printed self-balancing robot, and use the attached server script to control it. I coded using node.io, express and socket.io. The system is working, but I would appreciate some ...
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Proper prototypal programming with Node.JS

Practicing Prototypal Code I'm focusing on practicing a very prototypal structure with my code (non library oriented) to begin learning to reuse large portions of my application infrastructures where ...
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Socket.IO handshake module

For the server of which this is part, it makes a request to one of our web servers to validate whether the PHP Session ID is actually valid. The location ...
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Node.js chat service

I've built a simple chat server/client on Node.js and socket.io that I would like reviewed. My main concern is making the chat.js (client) running as cleanly as possible (OO) and streamlining data ...
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Node.js chat client

This is a chat using Node.js, socket.io and MongoDB for storage. I'd appreciate any feedback on what can be improved. I understand that this allows for non-unique usernames to be used, and it's ...
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Delivering realtime data from backend socket

I've got server running to make serial data available on a TCP/IP port. My goal is to collect data coming from a realtime device connected to the serial port and deliver it to web clients connected to ...