Where is the socket.io client library?

Question

As far as I have seen, there is no explanation as to where we are to locate the client side script for socket.io if node.js is not used as the web

Answer 1

I used bower as suggested in Matt Way's answer, and that worked great, but then the library itself didn't have its own bower.json file.

This meant that the bower-main-files Gulp plugin that I'm using to find my dependencies' JS files did not pull in socket.io, and I was getting an error on page load. Adding an override to my project's bower.json worked around the issue.

First install the library with bower:

bower install socket.io-client --save

Then add the override to your project's bower.json:

"overrides": {
  "socket.io-client": {
    "main": ["socket.io.js"]
  }
}