can I use socket.io-client to connect to a standard websocket?

Question

Trying to use socket.io-client to connect to a websocket server that is written in Go. I\'ve successfully connected using the node WebSocket library (npm). So the working We

Answer 1

Not sure if this was the case at the time, but socket.io's website now states this directly in the docs.

Although Socket.IO indeed uses WebSocket as a transport when possible, it adds additional metadata to each packet. That is why a WebSocket client will not be able to successfully connect to a Socket.IO server, and a Socket.IO client will not be able to connect to a plain WebSocket server either.

https://socket.io/docs/