Advanced Express Web Application Development

Socket.IO on the client

In order to display these Socket.IO published messages, we need to make some client changes. Let's install the Socket.IO client piece using bower:

bower install socketio-client

Let's make a single change to our ./lib/express/index.js Express server and simplify the location of our socket.io-client using the static middleware:

app.use('/sockets', express.static('public/components/socket.io-client/dist/'));

We will now add the Socket.IO client scripts to ./views/index.html:

<script src="/sockets/socket.io.js"></script>

Now we integrate Socket.IO into our backbone piece. Let's update our Backbone.js Router. The router initialise method now accepts socket as an argument and contains two Socket.IO event handlers: one for issues ...