how to get socket.id of a connection on client side?

Question

Im using the following code in index.js

io.on(\'connection\', function(socket){
console.log(\'a user connected\');
console.log(socket.id);
});

Answer 1

To get client side socket id for Latest socket.io 2.0 use the code below

 let socket = io(); 
 //on connect Event 
 socket.on('connect', () => {
     //get the id from socket
     console.log(socket.id);
 });