Express & Socket.io Route parroting/copying/sharing

Question

I\'m working with expressjs and socket.io in nodejs. I\'m looking into assign identical route handlers to requests made in either HTTP or via websockets/socket.io.

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Answer 1

There are several options.

• If you'd like to keep using express, check out express.io.

• If you don't mind using something a bit different, sails lets you do this sort of thing as well.

(Update: sails now uses express too)

Both have been used in production successfully.

Note that routing is also pretty simple to implement on your own. If you check out how express do it I'm sure you'll be able to figure out a slim implementation that would match you needs.

Good luck! Let me know what you ended up using and how it worked for you.