btford/angular-socket-io

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1501 stars · 225 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Bower-distributed AngularJS component that wraps Socket.IO clients in a socketFactory service integrated with Angular's digest cycle. It exposes the standard Socket.IO API plus a socket.forward helper that bridges socket events into AngularJS's scope event system.

Use cases

• use socket.io in an angularjs app
• integrate websocket events with angular digest cycle
• forward socket events to angular scope with $on
• inject a socket service into angular controllers
• manage socket listeners with angular scope lifecycle

When to choose

• you maintain a legacy AngularJS 1.x app using Socket.IO
• you need socket events to trigger Angular digest cycles correctly

When to avoid

• you are starting a new project with modern Angular, React, or Vue
• you use native WebSocket or another realtime library
• you need a maintained library with an active license and releases

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

websocket middleware web-development frontend browser angularjs socket-io bower digest-cycle real-time nodejs

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