Reading 19 Socket.io Namespaces and Rooms - liz-kavalski-401-advanced-javascript/seattle-javascript-401n13 GitHub Wiki

Rooms and Namespaces

• Can assign endpoints or paths
• Help minimized TCP connections and separate concerns within your application
• Dose has a defult
• to customize can use the of function on the server-side.
  • example:

const nsp = io.of('/my-namespace');
nsp.on('connection', function(socket){
  console.log('someone connected');
});
nsp.emit('hi', 'everyone!');

• on the client-side it would look like this:

const socket = io('/my-namespace');

• Can also create 'rooms' where people can join or leave
• the room has a unique id

Remote Connections

• There are ways to emit or broadcast messages.
  • Don't really get how it works?