There needs to be a wildcard feature in event handling

Note: The ‘anything’ event in docs can be confused as a global event, but of course isnt.

There should exist something to the effect of:

socket.wildcard = 'myWildcardValue';
socket.on('myWildCardValue', function(eventName, data){
    //handle all incoming events
}

See:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10405070/socket-io-client-respond-to-all-events-with-one-handler

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32552155/how-do-i-handle-all-incoming-socket-events-rather-than-a-specific-one

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32552481/did-the-socket-io-global-event-end-up-in-release?noredirect=1#comment52961409_32552481

Because there’s no support for this, developers are having to modify Socket.io client side (note, the node.js patch for this is not applicable client side) with code like this:

var socket = io.connect();
var globalEvent = "*";
socket.$emit = function (name) {
    if(!this.$events) return false;
    for(var i=0;i<2;++i){
        if(i==0 && name==globalEvent) continue;
        var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1-i);
        var handler = this.$events[i==0?name:globalEvent];
        if(!handler) handler = [];
        if ('function' == typeof handler) handler.apply(this, args);
        else if (io.util.isArray(handler)) {
            var listeners = handler.slice();
            for (var i=0, l=listeners.length; i<l; i++)
                listeners[i].apply(this, args);
        } else return false;
    }
    return true;
};
socket.on(globalEvent,function(event){
    var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);
    console.log("Global Event = "+event+"; Arguments = "+JSON.stringify(args));
});

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Yeah I have no idea why Socket.io devs are still ignoring this / refusing to implement it natively.

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Also, many people seem to agree that this should be a native feature.