FeathersJS socketio client disconnect?

I'm developing an Electron app that connects to a FeathersJS server using FeathersJS SocketIO client. It works properly using the code provided at FeathersJS documentation, but I'd like the possibility to connect/disconnect the client from the server, basically to connect to another server (with exactly the same services). The example would be: I have 2 FeathersJS servers with exactly the same services but with different data stored, and I want my Electron app to be able to connect to server number 1, then disconnect and connect to server number 2.

Is there any way to do this?

Solution

The most straightforward way is probably to initialized two Feathers applications that you can swap out accordingly in your Electron app. A slightly more hacky way would be to replace the connection on the application (app.io) and the initialized client services (service.connection):

const replaceConnection = (app, socket) => {
  app.io = socket;

  Object.keys(app.services).forEach(name => {
    app.service(name).connection = socket;
  });

  return app;
}