Where is the socket.io client library?

Question

As far as I have seen, there is no explanation as to where we are to locate the client side script for socket.io if node.js is not used as the web server. I've found a whole directory of client side files, but I need them in a combined version (like it's served when using node.js webs servers). Any ideas?

Answer 1

The best way I have found to do this is to use bower.

bower install socket.io-client --save 

and include the following in your app's HTML:

<script src="/bower_components/socket.io-client/socket.io.js"></script> 

That way you can treat the socket.io part of your client the same way you treat any other managed package.

Answer 2

socket.io.js is what you're going to put into your client-side html. Something like:

<script type="text/javascript" src="socket.io.js"></script> 

my script is located:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/socket.io-client/dist/socket.io.js 

copy that file to where you want your server to serve it.