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io.sockets.socket(socketId) is gone?

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In the 0.9.x, we can use io.sockets.socket(socketId), but in 1.0.x, it’s gone. How to find a socket by id in 1.0.x?

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Created 9 years ago
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victorwoocommented, Jun 16, 2014

Thank you @rsdrsd , io.to(socket.id).emit() is what I want. I think the official docs didn’t introduce this io.to(socketId) method clearly.

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StefansAryacommented, Jul 2, 2017

@darrachequesne Thanks for the explanation, I have learn so many things with nodejs REPL and found that I can do this for the alternative… I’ll leave this here if someone have a same problem like me… io.sockets.sockets[targetSocketID].join(roomID)

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