Joining socket io room on connect

Question

I am trying to make a logged in user to join a certain socket.io room on connect. According to any examples I found on the net I seem to have emit some action from client to be

Answer 1

There is no .join() method on the client side. Rooms are purely a server-side construct and the client knows nothing about them.

Your first block of code is the desired way to do things. You send the server a message of your design asking it to join the socket to a room and the .join() is executed on the server side.