Is it possible to keep socket.io connections alive after restarting Nodejs server?

I wrote an online multiplayer turn based game which uses socket.io as transport mechanism. But the problem is that when I want to change some code in application it must be restarted and this causes socket connections disconnect and reconnect so the game flow including timers, state & ... will be corrupt. How can I handle this situation?

I tried to write a reset handler module:

    http.listen(port, () => {
        const argv = process.argv.slice(2)
        if (argv[0] === 'platform-Master') {
            const resetHandler = require('./reset-handler')()
            setTimeout(async () => {
                await resetHandler.findOpenGames()
            }, 3000)
        }
    })

But it only works on single process not a cluster or at scale.