Trying to reconnect a socket.io socket that was explicitly disconnected

Question

Trying to reconnect a socket.io socket that was explicitly disconnected

After calling socket.disconnect() on the client side, I try to reconnect that client io.connect("http://localhost:8000") but the socket does not seem to be created. Is this possible to do without a page refresh?

node.js
tcp
websocket
protocols
socket.io

Answer 1

If you have a socket created with something like

var connection = io.connect();

in your client-side JS, you can reconnect via

connection.socket.connect();

Answer 2

A typical use case would be

var socket;
var firstconnect = true;

function connect() {
  if(firstconnect) {
    socket = io.connect();
    ... do something else

    firstconnect = false;
  }
  else {
    socket.socket.reconnect();
  }