Socket.io Client: respond to all events with one handler?

Question

Is it possible to have a socket.io client respond to all events without to have specify each event individually?

For example, something like this (which obviously do

Answer 1

Because your question was pretty general in asking for a solution, I'll pitch this one that requires no hacking the code, just a change in how you use the socket.

I just decided to have my client app send the exact same event, but with a different payload.

socket.emit("ev", { "name" : "miscEvent1"} );
socket.emit("ev", { "name" : "miscEvent2"} );

And on the server, something like...

socket.on("ev", function(eventPayload) {
   myGenericHandler(eventPayload.name);
});

I don't know if always using the same event could cause any issues, maybe collisions of some kind at scale, but this served my purposes just fine.