I think this question is pretty straightforward, but I haven't found an answer yet in the official Socket.io docs.
I have my Socket.io server and client communicating successfully, and when I shut down the server, the client will attempt to reconnect with the server unsuccessfully. This is shown in the Chrome developer's console here:
Is there any way to detect this event in the client-side Javscript and react to it some way? I'm thinking I would display a dialog on the page, such as "Sorry, server is under heavy load", etc.
The correct way to handle this, as of Socket 1.x, is to use the Manager object for a given socket. It throws a connect_error
event that can be handled as shown:
socket.io.on('connect_error', function(err) {
// handle server error here
console.log('Error connecting to server');
});
This should work:
var socket = io('http://localhost');
socket.on('connect_error', function(err) {
// notify user
});
As of now and in the past there is no way to "handle" the red messages. You can't hide them.
Reference:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/43056626/5563074
You can't hide them but socket.io does have a way to catch them like presented earlier.
socket.on('connect_error', function(e){
//Do something
//console.log(e);
});
Docs:
https://socket.io/docs/client-api/#Event-%E2%80%98connect-error%E2%80%99