Socket.io Client: respond to all events with one handler?

Question

Is it possible to have a socket.io client respond to all events without to have specify each event individually?

For example, something like this (which obviously do

Answer 1

All methods I found (including socket.io-wildcard and socketio-wildcard) didn't work for me. Apparently there is no $emit in socket.io 1.3.5...

After reading socket.io code, I patched up the following which DID work:

var Emitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
var emit = Emitter.prototype.emit;
[...]
var onevent = socket.onevent;
socket.onevent = function (packet) {
    var args = ["*"].concat (packet.data || []);
    onevent.call (this, packet);    // original call
    emit.apply   (this, args);      // additional call to catch-all
};

This might be a solution for others as well. However, ATM I don't exactly understand why nobody else seems to have issues with the existing "solutions"?!? Any ideas? Maybe it's my old node version (0.10.31)...

Answer 2

I'm using Angular 6 and the npm package: ngx-socket-io

import { Socket } from "ngx-socket-io";

...

constructor(private socket: Socket) { }

...

After connect the socket, I use this code, this is handling all custom events...

const onevent = this.socket.ioSocket.onevent;
this.socket.ioSocket.onevent = function (packet: any) {
  const args = packet.data || [];
  onevent.call(this, packet);    // original call
  packet.data = ["*"].concat(args);
  onevent.call(this, packet);      // additional call to catch-all
};
this.socket.on("*", (eventName: string, data: any) => {
  if (typeof data === 'object') {
    console.log(`socket.io event: [${eventName}] -> data: [${JSON.stringify(data)}]`);
  } else {
    console.log(`socket.io event: [${eventName}] -> data: [${data}]`);
  }
});