Overriding socket.io's emit and on?

Question

During development, it helps me greatly to be able to see what packets arrive and gets sent. This is possible on the server side with logger. On the client end, however, the

Answer 1

Works, tested:

var _emit = socket.emit;
    _onevent = socket.onevent;

    socket.emit = function () { //Override outgoing
        //Do your logic here
        console.log('***', 'emit', arguments);
        _emit.apply(socket, arguments);
    };

    socket.onevent = function (packet) { //Override incoming
        var args = packet.data || [];
        //Do your logic here
        console.log('***', 'onevent', packet);
        _onevent.call(socket, packet);
    };