Restricting yourself to a namespace on Socket.IO

Server

var io = require('socket.io')(80);
var chat = io
  .of('/chat')
  .on('connection', function (socket) {
    socket.emit('a message', {
        that: 'only'
      , '/chat': 'will get'
    });
    chat.emit('a message', {
        everyone: 'in'
      , '/chat': 'will get'
    });
  });

var news = io
  .of('/news')
  .on('connection', function (socket) {
    socket.emit('item', { news: 'item' });
  });

Client

<script>
  var chat = io.connect('http://localhost/chat')
    , news = io.connect('http://localhost/news');
  
  chat.on('connect', function () {
    chat.emit('hi!');
  });
  
  news.on('news', function () {
    news.emit('woot');
  });
</script>

References
https://socket.io/docs/#Restricting-yourself-to-a-namespace

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