I am using socket.io in my project. I turned on reconnect feature. I want to if user disconnects from server show an alert (Your internet connection loss. Trying reconnect). And if the user reconnects again I want to show one more alert (Don't worry, you are connected).
How can I do it?
To detect on the client you use
// CLIENT CODE
socket.on('disconnect', function(){
// Do stuff (probably some jQuery)
});
It's the exact same code as above for a node.js server too.
If you want for some reason to detect a user disconnecting and display it to the others, you will need to use the server one to detect it the person leaving and then emit back out a message to the others using something like:
socket.on('disconnect', function(){
socket.broadcast.to(roomName).emit('user_leave', {user_name: "johnjoe123"});
});
Hope this helps
socket.io
has a disconnect
event, put this inside your connect
block:
socket.on('disconnect', function () {
//do stuff
});
I handled this problem this way. I've made an emit sender on client which is calling heartbeat on server.
socket.on('heartbeat', function() {
// console.log('heartbeat called!');
hbeat[socket.id] = Date.now();
setTimeout(function() {
var now = Date.now();
if (now - hbeat[socket.id] > 5000) {
console.log('this socket id will be closed ' + socket.id);
if (addedUser) {
--onlineUsers;
removeFromLobby(socket.id);
try {
// this is the most important part
io.sockets.connected[socket.id].disconnect();
} catch (error) {
console.log(error)
}
}
}
now = null;
}, 6000);
});
I found this code function to call:
io.sockets.connected[socket.id].disconnect();