How configure reconnecting in socket.io?

Question

I create socket.io connection with next code

var socket = new io.connect(\'http://localhost:8181\', {
    \'reconnect\': true,
    \'reconnection delay\': 500,
          


        

Answer 1

This is an old question, but I had the same question (for a different reason) when using v1.4.5. My chat room app worked beautifully, but when I hit Ctrl+C in the terminal, my browser continued to loop and report ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED every few seconds until I shut it down.

Changing a previous answer just a bit gave me the solution.

For v1.4.5, here is my original code for "var socket" in my client js file:

    var socket = io();

And here is the solution:

    var socket = io({
        'reconnection': true,
        'reconnectionDelay': 1000,
        'reconnectionDelayMax' : 5000,
        'reconnectionAttempts': 5
    });

Obviously I could change the values if I want, but the important point is that this killed the never ending reconnection requests.