Make Socket.IO great again

(yep, that headline is overrused)

Disclaimer:

• I have no control over the website (socket.io), to my knowledge only @rauchg has, so I’m unfortunately not able to fix those issues: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2807 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2791 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2781 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2773 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2753 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2743 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2736
• I have no control over the chat example repository, that is the one that is behind the chat example, so I’m unfortunately not able to fix those issues: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2821 (and all open PR over there)
• I’m not even an expert in Socket.IO, just a developer digging around during his free time between two freelance contracts

Now, enough about my limitations. The Server API and Client API were added on Github, do not hesitate if you find something missing!

Current to-do list:

• release the version 2.0 of Engine.IO Engine.IO will now default to uws as WebSocket engine, that should bring great performance improvements. An important issue about double UTF-8 encoding was also fixed in the parser. The only “problem” is that one of the numerous issues open could need a fix over there, hence the delay.
• complete the API docs (missing methods, code examples…): https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2350#issuecomment-209575927
• add a Features section in the README, listing all features provided by Socket.IO (reconnection, multiplexing, rooms…)
• add an Architecture overview section, listing every project (socket.io-adapter, socket.io-parser…) and maybe describing what’s happening behind the hood when calling socket.emit() or io.emit().
• take control over the website and the online examples. @rauchg suggested to rewrite the website with next.js (currently it is backed by WordPress) and to host it at https://now.sh
• merge the cluster examples: nginx, haproxy, httpd, reviews are welcome!
• merge the whiteboard example: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/pull/2810
• dig into CORS issue: https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/issues/279 > https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/pull/491
• dig into binary performance issue: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/issues/61
• maybe update the Namespace API on the client-side (https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/issues/1029, https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/02/23/how-to-compose-apps-using-websockets/)
• add a Webpack build example: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2109 > https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/pull/2828
• dig into handshake optimisation: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/1954 (somewhere around here) > https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/pull/471
• dig into custom codecs: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/1946
• document the slim build: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/pull/1030 (related: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2610)
• fix the id generation on the client-side: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/pull/1058

I closed quite a lot of issues yesterday through the GitHub API (hitting the rate limit several times), in order to have some feedback (like this one ❤️) and to be able to focus to the active ones.

As usual, every contribution is welcome!

[dsalcedo]

May the force with you.

[rauchg]

My hope is to support you and help out with the website. As soon as we add organizations support to now.sh I’ll be able to include you. In the mean time, feel free to point me to what repositories I should deploy at what URLs!

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:55 AM Damien Arrachequesne < [e-mail]> wrote:

(yep, that headline is overrused)

Disclaimer:

• I have no control over the website (socket.io), to my knowledge only @rauchg https://github.com/rauchg has, so I’m unfortunately not able to fix those issues: #2807 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2807 #2791 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2791 #2781 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2781 #2773 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2773 #2753 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2753 #2743 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2743 #2736 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2736

• I have no control over the chat example repository https://github.com/rauchg/chat-example, that is the one that is behind the chat example http://socket.io/get-started/chat/, so I’m unfortunately not able to fix those issues: #2821 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2821 (and all open PR over there)

• I’m not even an expert in Socket.IO, just a developer digging around during his free time between two freelance contracts

Now, enough about my limitations. The Server API https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/master/docs/API.md and Client API https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/blob/master/docs/API.md were added on Github, do not hesitate if you find something missing!

Current to-do list:

• release the version 2.0 of Engine.IO

Engine.IO will now default to uws https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets as WebSocket engine, that should bring great performance improvements. An important issue about double UTF-8 encoding was also fixed in the parser https://github.com/socketio/engine.io-parser/pull/81. The only “problem” is that one of the numerous issues open could need a fix over there, hence the delay.

• complete the API docs (missing methods, code examples…): #2350 (comment) https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2350#issuecomment-209575927

• add a Features section in the README, listing all features provided by Socket.IO (reconnection, multiplexing, rooms…)

• add an Architecture overview section, listing every project ( socket.io-adapter, socket.io-parser…) and maybe describing what’s happening behind the hood when calling socket.emit() or io.emit().

• take control over the website and the online examples. @rauchg https://github.com/rauchg suggested to rewrite the website with next.js https://github.com/zeit/next.js/ (currently it is backed by WordPress) and to host it at https://now.sh

• merge the cluster examples: nginx https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/pull/2817, haproxy https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/pull/2818, httpd https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/pull/2819, reviews are welcome!

• merge the whiteboard example: #2810 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/pull/2810

• dig into CORS issue: socketio/engine.io#279 https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/issues/279

• dig into binary performance issue: socketio/socket.io-parser#61 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/issues/61

• maybe update the Namespace API on the client-side ( socketio/socket.io-client#1029 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/issues/1029, https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/02/23/how-to-compose-apps-using-websockets/ )

• add a Webpack build example: #2109 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2109

• dig into handshake optimisation: #1954 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/1954 (somewhere around here https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/blob/1.8.2/lib/socket.js#L56)

• dig into custom codecs: #1946 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/1946

• document the slim build: socketio/socket.io-client#1030 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/pull/1030 (related: #2610 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2610)

• fix the id generation on the client-side: socketio/socket.io-client#1058 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client/pull/1058

I closed quite a lot of issues yesterday through the GitHub API (hitting the rate limit several times), in order to have some feedback (like this one https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/issues/2350#issuecomment-272211975 ❤️) and to be able to focus to the active ones.

As usual, every contribution is welcome!

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