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    <p>I have a Node.js web server that runs a socket server on top, which was created using <a href="http://www.socket.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Socket.io</a>. Basically, this works.</p> <p>What I now want to achieve is that the clients that connect are clustered in groups. So there might be some clients which make up group A and some other clients which make up group B. They shall select to which group they belong by adressing a specific URL, either <code>localhost:3000/A</code> or <code>localhost:3000/B</code>.</p> <p>In Socket.io I now want to send messages to all clients in group A or to all clients in group B or to all clients, without looking at their group.</p> <p>It's basically like having a chat with rooms, and you have either messages for all clients within a specific room, or for any client, no matter what room he is in.</p> <p>What is the best way to design such a system using Socket.io?</p> <p>I have been trying using namespace so far, which basically works for creating groups A and B, but then I lose the ability to send messages to all clients, no matter what room they are in. At least I don't know how to do this.</p> <p>How should I model this? What are the right terms I should look for?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> According to the answer of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1174481/sdedelbrock">@sdedelbrock</a> I could use namespace or rooms:</p> <ul> <li>If use namespaces, I am not long able to send to everybody, regardless of their namespace. This is because <code>io.sockets</code> is a shortcut to <code>io.of('')</code>, which of course does not match the namespace any longer.</li> <li>This means that I should use rooms, but I wonder what the semantic difference between a room and a namespace is.</li> </ul> <p>To cut it short: Why are there two concepts for the same (?) idea?</p>
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