Socket.IO - require is not defined

Question

I\'m trying to get socket.io working but now in Chrome I get the error:

Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined

client.php:9

Answer 1

As others have noted, when io is run on the server side, an "automagical" service of "socket.io.js" is served - and it branches out to the other js files in its lib directory.

What I wish to add, is that This is Not Intutive and, no, you cannot have your regular webserver serve this file - the errors just get more strange and seemingly contradictory (require not defined, etc). This is not a normal js file, and I wish all the tutorials out there would emphasize that.

Anyhow, if you are running behind nginx, for example, set the port-settings to the same port assigned for node - port 3000 in my case. I used that port in the client like this:

... and then also used port 3000 in the server code - there are too many ways / versions you can code the server-js-code for an example to do anything but confuse most who are using 'a different way'.