Need definitive and working way to use socketio

[Darryl Porter]

I been stumbling with locomotive for about a week now. My main attraction is that it is the "fullest" full stack frameworks for nodejs. However, my attraction to node is the ability to build real-time apps with socketio.

Over the last few days I have read everything out there on locomotive and socketio integration and have found nothing that works in a way that makes since.

Could someone please give a full example of how to use these two together.

[Jared Hanson]

Could you provide some details as to what you've read/tried, as well as how you would expect it to work?

I'd love to see further integration in this area.  However, I find that other frameworks trying to unify RESTful and real-time approaches tend to not do either very well.  In my own apps, where I need to support both models, I tend to have minimal Locomotive controllers and real-time handlers sharing a set of common libraries.  This tends to work well.

There are some common patterns to abstract from that work, but I haven't quite teased them out in a way I'm satisfied with.  Until then, though, I think its best to stay focused on doing one thing, and doing it well.  But, I'd love to see further discussion on this topic, and how integration could be done effectively.

Jared

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[Darryl Porter]

Thanks for your response.

I read this thread:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/locomotivejs/WnKmRpr-i1k

And this one:

https://github.com/jaredhanson/locomotive/issues/87

Ideally, I'd like to create a custom boot function for creating the web server with  socketio support. In that, I'd like to attach the socketio instance to the application instance with something like this:

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

locomotive.boot(function() {

  this.io = socketio.listen(this.server);//Or whatever the server instance is.

});

And from a controller be able to grab the "this.io".

Is something like this possible. My example is simplistic, but hopefully you understand what I'd like to attempt.

THanks

[Ka Yuk LEE]

I stumbled upon a repo but have not tried it:

https://github.com/kayakyakr/locomotive-http-socketio-server

[Darryl Porter]

Thanks, I'll take a look

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