The new iOS websocket library, SocketRocket, looks really awesome, and the chat example project is really sweet. The example chat server is written in Python, of which I know none. I'm slightly familiar with socket.io on node.js and prefer to try javascript. I tried connecting the SocketRocket TestChat simulator app to the node.js(6.10) socket.io(0.8.7) but the connection was refused. (Also, I'm not a node expert either, so this may be a silly question).
In a recent answer to an SO question, mikelikespie said to op: "I suggest updating your stack to use the iOS WebSocket library we just released."
What does that mean exactly? What is necessary to get the SocketRocket library to talk to a node socket.io server? Any sample code or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Well you socket.io has it's own protocol built on transport protocols such as websockets, or long polling, well SocketRocket is just a websocket library, no more. Socket.io also has some authentication, so it's not possible to use it, with normal web sockets. What I suggest you to use is a just websocket server, no more than that. Such as ws, which should compatible. There are other libraries, but, ws I believe is actively developed at the moment, and newer than others.
You can also make your clientside socket.io compatible, but I think its uneeded. Here's the specs for it: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io-spec
Hope I helped.