Proper way to use socket.io with aero?

[johnpittman]

How do I get the instance of the http server to init socket.io?
I guessed this:

const server = app.run();

const io = require('socket.io')(server);

io.on('connection', (socket) => {
console.log('a user connected');

socket.on('disconnect', () => {
console.log('user disconnected');
});
});

[akyoto]

I don't know socket.io but this is how you can access it: app.server.http

app.server gives you the Aero Server instance and app.server.http gives you the http or node-spdy server object.

app.run() returns app.ready which is a promise that gets fulfilled when the server loaded all pages and started the server.

So I recommend doing it like this:

app.run().then(() => {
    console.log(app.server.http)
})

[akyoto]

Oh, I just realized that I didn't upload these changes yet.
The currently released module (1.4.1) requires app.server.httpServer, not app.server.http.
Sorry for the misleading information.

[akyoto]

As of 1.4.2 which was released today the correct way to access the server object is app.server.http and has also been included in the documentation now.

[johnpittman]

You are awesome. Thanks!