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node.jssocket.ioclient

Broadcast a basic event to all clients

How would I go about broadcasting alert("Hello World!"); on all clients currently avaible?
I have gone through these links:

  • https://socket.io/get-started/chat
  • https://socket.io/docs/v3/client-api/
  • https://socket.io/docs/v3/emit-cheatsheet/
    • And NONE of them helped. Can someone please help me?!

    Solutions I have tried: 

    // Script.js:
var socket;

function onload(){
  socket = io();
}

function test(){
   socket.emit("broadcast");
}
socket.on('broadcast', function() {
    alert("Hello World!");
});

    // index.js:
const express = require("express");
const socketio = require("socket.io");
const path = require("path");
const app = express();
const http = require("http");
const io2 = require("socket.io-client");

const directory = path.join(__dirname, "html");
const httpserver = http.Server(app);
const io = socketio(httpserver);

app.use(express.static(directory));
httpserver.listen(3000);
    Solution

  • To broadcast a message to all connected clients from your server, you do:

    io.emit('bulletin', someMsg);

    To listen for that message in the client, you do this:

    socket.on('bulletin', someMsg => {
    console.log(someMsg);
});

    The message name 'bulletin' can be anything you want it to be (any string that doesn't conflict with a built-in message name).

    You cannot trigger a broadcast directly from the client. But, you can send the server a custom message that you design and have the server, upon receipt of that message, then do a broadcast to all connected clients.