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When deploying a droplet, does a digital ocean droplet allow direct socket access?
- Posted on November 6, 2016
- ApacheUbuntu 16.04
Asked by blakecarter
I am trying to deploy a web application that allows access to sockets.
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i’ve had no difficulty running a node.js application that uses sockets (with the socket.io library).
EXAMPLE:
var iohost = require(‘socket.io’).listen(3000).on(‘connection’,function(sock){ sock.on(‘client’,function(data){ sock.broadcast.emit(‘foo’,{‘foobar’: data.letter}); }); });