Allow socket to be provided from outside

I’ve got all my front end code nicely managed by JSPM and I would like to avoid having to put the socket.io client on my pages window object.

Maybe one of the constructor overloads for new Echo could look like this:

const socket = io("http://localhost:8083");

const echo = new Echo({
    broadcaster: "socket.io",
    socket: socket,
});

[driesvints]

Actually, I just noticed this is already possible. You can define the client on a client key in the options object: https://github.com/laravel/echo/blob/c829764fe05028462b4dc88fb5d7dd82b3b1914c/src/connector/socketio-connector.ts#L45-L47

I’ll try to update the docs with this.

[atrauzzi]

Well look at that! I opened this ticket quite some while ago, so I guess that just managed to sneak in on common sense. 😉

Thanks for finding this ticket so I could get the update!