Tutorial

Credits

The structure of this tutorial has been taken from here: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/socket.io/index.htm and adapted for our Lucee server.

Introduction

The aim of this tutorial is to give you a taste of what is possible with this library and quickly get up to speed with key Socket.IO concepts.

We recommend starting from the beginning and thoroughly working through each step.

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Table of contents

• 1. Prerequisites
• 2. Making a connection
• 3. Event handling
• 4. Broadcasting
• 5. Namespaces
• 6. Rooms
• 7. Ack callbacks
• 8. Chat application