Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js

Summary

At this point, we should feel comfortable about creating and using real-time events in Socket.IO. We should also know how to namespace our io server and create groups of users. We also learned how to authorize socket connections to only allow logged-in users to connect. We did this in the context of our Express application that we created in the previous chapter.

Our next chapter will demonstrate the correct way to authenticate users using Passport.