How to import Socket.io using import - Nodejs

Question

Not sure why I am getting the error. When I try to do the same thing by using request it works fine.

import express from 'express';
import { createServer } from 'http';
import * as io from 'socket.io';

const app = express();
const server = createServer(app);
const socketio = io(server);

Error

const socketio = io(server);
                 ^

TypeError: io is not a function

Answer 1

You should try this instead

import { Server } from "socket.io";
const httpServer = createServer();
const io = new Server(httpServer, {
  // ...
});

Check it out here Socket.io Initialization