socket.io: Failed to load resource

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I'm trying to getting started with socket.io and node.js.

Following the first example on the socket.io's site I'm getting the following error in the browser's console:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://localhost:3001/socket.io/socket.io.js
Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined 

This is my server.js

var app = require('express').createServer()
  , io = require('socket.io').listen(app);

app.listen(3001);

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.sendfile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});

io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
  socket.emit('news', { hello: 'world' });
  socket.on('my other event', function (data) {
    console.log(data);
  });
});

And this is my index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script>
  var socket = io.connect('http://localhost');
  socket.on('news', function (data) {
    console.log(data);
    socket.emit('my other event', { my: 'data' });
  });
</script>
  </body>
</html>

I've already installed socket.io..

7 Answers

The following changes finally worked for me

const app = express(); const http = require('http'); const server = http.createServer(app); const io = require('socket.io')(server)

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