VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
Socket.io is a library which enables real-time and full duplex communication between the Client and the Web servers.
- It helps in broadcasting to multiple sockets at a time and handles the connection transparently.
- It works on all platform, server or device ensuring the equality, reliability, and speed.
- It automatically upgrades the requirement to WebSocket if needed.
- It is a custom real-time transport protocol implementation on top of other protocols.
- It requires both libraries to be used Client side as well as a server-side library.
- IO works on work-based events. there are some reserved events which can be accessed using the Socket on server side like Connect, message, Disconnect, Ping and Reconnect.
- There are some Client based reserved events like Connect, connect- error, connect-timeout and Reconnect etc.
