How to connect Socket.io to App Platform

Hi @larryryan0824,

I can’t say I’ve actually had similar Apps being built so it’s just a short in the dark for me however, I’ve searched around DigitalOcean’s community, docs and tutorials and found those 2, hope they can be of some help until someone else answers this :

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/angular-socket-io

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-deploy-nodejs-socket-io-app-on-digital-ocean-app-engine

Hope this helps!

👋 @larryryan0824

I’m not sure if this is what’s causing the error, but just in case it helps:

made the server as component of it with its path at /api. I have configured socket.io to use that path and know it is correct due to the url returning that error code.

By default, if a component is configured with an HTTP route, the app/code will see incoming requests without the /api prefix. For example, a request coming in to /api/login will be rewritten to /login before being forwarded to the app.

If this is not the desired behavior, you can instruct App Platform to keep the prefix by following these steps:

1. Navigate to your app in the control panel
2. Click on the Settings tab
3. Scroll down and download the App Spec
4. Find your component’s routes, and set the preserve_path_prefix option to true
5. Save the file, and upload the new app spec to the control panel.

...
services:
  - name: api
    routes:
      - path: /api
        preserve_path_prefix: true
...

For more info on the app spec, please see the reference.