Socket.io custom client ID

Question

I\'m making a chat app with socket.io, and I\'d like to use my custom client id, instead of the default ones (8411473621394412707, 1120516437992682114

Answer 1

or you can override the socket id, like this:

io.on('connection', function(socket){

      socket.id = "YOUR_CUSTOM_ID";
});

you can see under the array:

io.sockets.sockets