emit

Recently I have been messing around with socket.io and found this interesting thing, that I can have emit function callback like this. I start emitting on client side like this: client.emit('eventToEmit', dataToEmit, function(error, message){ console.log(error); console.log(message); }); Then I can fire a callback from server-side like this: client.on('eventToEmit', function(data, callback){ console.log(data); callback('error', 'message'); }); Everything works fine with no errors, but I am interested if doing something like this is appropriate since I have not seen anything similar in the

Is there a way to emit to the current socket within a post method of node.js using socket.io and express without having to go through the io.sockets.on('connection') ? Here is my issue. I am making a mini authorization system. When the user submits from the form it post the data through '/login' instead of using a onclick emit. If the user has an invalid user-name or password it should send a message back notifying it failed. I would prefer not to use the callback or write because I am using a Jade template. You can see my source code here . Example: Server Side var LoggIn = require('./lib