Improve this AngularJS factory to use with socket.io

Question

I want to use socket.io in AngularJS. I found the following factory:

app.factory(\'socket\', function ($rootScope) {
    var socket = io.connect();
    retur         


        

Answer 1

I tried different ways but nothing worked as expected. In my app I'm using a socket factory in both the MainController and a GameController. When the user switches to a different view I only want to remove the duplicates events generated by the GameController and leave the MainController running so I cannot use a removeAllListeners function. Instead I discovered a better way to just avoid creating duplicates inside my socket factory:

app.factory('socket', function ($rootScope) {
  var socket = io.connect();

  function on(eventName, callback) {
    socket.on(eventName, function () {
      var args = arguments;

      $rootScope.$apply(function () {
        callback.apply(socket, args);
      });
    });

    // Remove duplicate listeners
    socket.removeListener(eventName, callback);
  }

  function emit(eventName, data, callback) {
    socket.emit(eventName, data, function () {
      var args = arguments;

      $rootScope.$apply(function () {
        if (callback) {
          callback.apply(socket, args);
        }
      });
    });

    // Remove duplicate listeners
    socket.removeListener(eventName, callback);
  }

  return {
    on: on,
    emit: emit
  };
}