What's the difference between io.sockets.emit and broadcast?

Question

What\'s the difference between io.sockets.emit and socket.broadcast.emit? Is it only that broadcast emits to everyone BUT the socket that sends it?

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Answer 1

Scenario:1:- By the use of io.sockets.emit Detailed Diagram:-io.sockets.emit

Here Every Socket gets the Message including Initiator.

  // BY IO>SOCKETS>EMIT
   io.sockets.emit('MyChannelBroadcast',
               {
                 owner:"Anshu Ashish",
                 clientCount:clients,
                 message:"Welcome All"
               }
    );

Scenario:2:- By the use of socket.broadcast.emit Detailed Diagram:-socket.broadcast.emit

Here Every Sockets are getting Message Except One i.e Initiator.

    // BY SOCKET>BROADCAST>EMIT
   socket.broadcast.emit('BroadCastExceptMe',{data:"HAVE A NICE DAY"});

Conclusion:- Now it will totally depends our business requirement that which one will be preferable.