Socket IO reconnect?

Question

How to reconnect to socket io once disconnect has been called?

Here\'s the code

function initSocket(__bool){                    
    if(         


        

Answer 1

I know you already have an answer, but I arrived here because the socket.IO client reconnection feature is broken in node at the moment.

Active bugs on the github repo show that lots of people aren't getting events on connect failure, and reconnect isn't happening automatically.

To work around this, you can create a manual reconnect loop as follows:

var socketClient = socketioClient.connect(socketHost)

var tryReconnect = function(){

    if (socketClient.socket.connected === false &&
        socketClient.socket.connecting === false) {
        // use a connect() or reconnect() here if you want
        socketClient.socket.connect()
   }
}

var intervalID = setInterval(tryReconnect, 2000)

socketClient.on('connect', function () {
    // once client connects, clear the reconnection interval function
    clearInterval(intervalID)
    //... do other stuff
})