Multiple Websocket Servers

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@Coder100

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This is quite simple: you need to create the illusion. One way of doing this would be to convert from requesting wss://example.com/ to wss://example.com/?room=abcdef. On the backend, I assume you're handling this by using a list (or object) of connections:


const connections = [];

wsServer.on("connection", (sock, req) => {
  connections.push(sock);
  /* ... */
});

You will need to convert that (appropriately, don't copy-paste) to this:


const url = require("url");
const connections = {};

wsServer.on("connection", (sock, req) => {
  const room = url.parse(req.url, true).query.room || "default"; //Find the "room" query parameter
  if (connections[room] == undefined) connections[room] = []; //Set up the list of connections if it's not there already
  connections[room].push(sock); //Add this connection to the room
  /* ... */
});

And no, you can't [have multiple WebSocket servers on one repl].

This did not work for me, am I doing anything wrong?

For this whenever I am for example sending a message,
would I do


connections[room].forEach(({ socket }) => socket.send(`m${name}`));

I already have the code you put above.

Looks good

When I did this, it provided an error of "Cannot read property send of undefined" Edit: I think I have resolved the problem, waiting for someone else on chat to test. Also, for your code above I had to change the req value in const room to req.toString(); Could that be affecting it?

I see the issue, change to this:


connections[room].forEach(socket => socket.send(`m${name}`));

Ok, I will try that

It gave an error of "socket is not a function at socket.send"

No, it didn't. Read it carefully.

socket.send is not a function that is what the error said srry

what should I do?

What line is this on?

line 400, would you like me to ask ryan to add you back to repl?

If the other sends work, revert back to your original:


connections[room].forEach(({ socket }) => socket.send(`m${name}`));

And no, you shouldn't toString req. That was my mistake, I've updated my post.

I will try that

It still says "cannot read property send of undefined"

Can you change it to:


connections[room].forEach(d=>console.dir(d));

what is the d=> and everything for, and how would I substitute it?