socket.on('connection' … event never fired nodejs + express + socket.io

Question

Problem socket.io NOT working

Details

• Generated a project with express [folder]; cd [folder]; npm install;

Answer 1

Took a while to notice... the connection event is emmited on io.sockets. In your code this would be

socket.sockets.on('connection', function (client) {
  client.send("hello")
  console.log("hello", client)
})

You should use io instead of socket as the var name to avoid this confusion.