socket.io with express

Question

i have a project and I\'m using socket.io with express ,

so what i need (i tried) is broadcasting a message but from an express action. is this possible i don\'t know ho

Answer 1

Check out my example repo where I use ExpressJS + Juggernaut(pubsub over socket.io):

http://github.com/shripadk/express-juggernaut-demo

This might be overkill for what you need as it uses Publish/Subscribe. But it does, to a certain extent, solve your issue of using regular ExpressJS routes. Checkout the master branch after cloning the repository:

git checkout master