Socket.IO has really impressed me in the past month. That said, some of the docu...

Rauchg · on Nov 2, 2010

One of the goals of this release was to make it as easy as possible to get started.

1) One line to install

npm install socket.io

2) Three lines two use on the server

var io = require('socket.io');

var socket = io.listen(yourHttpServerInstance);

socket.on('connection', function(conn){ conn.on('message', function(msg){ console.log('message from client', msg); }); }

3) Three lines to use on the client

var socket = new io.Socket().connect();

socket.send('my message!');