Confused on what port to use with Express

[Chroma72]

So does the server.listen(3000) actually start the geckos server listening on port 3000 instead of the default 9208 port? Or do I have to also add a io.listen() in there? And that also sets the express server port to 3000 and that's where the page will be served from. I must be missing something here...

io.addServer(server)
server.listen(3000)

[Chroma72]

After some tinkering around I see that it does set the geckos port to 3000 also, so there's no need to do a io.listen() etc. So I'm assuming there's no issue with serving the web page and also using the same port for geckos...

One thing that I did get working that I think is pretty cool though; I changed the extension on the client to .mjs and added export to the front of it, so now I can import it directly into my client.js file with a import { geckos } from '/js/geckos.io-client.2.0.0.min.mjs';. Works a treat. Then I can do a proper const channel = geckos({ port: 3000 }). Saves an extra call in the html file.

[yandeu]

Yes, you can serve your files and geckos from the same port.

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[Chroma72]

Is there any advantage to doing io.addServer(server) as opposed to io.listen() or is it just semantics? I'm assuming it's just semantics so it's really not an issue. Was just making sure I wasn't missing an optimization. Thanks for all your hard work on geckos.io. It's working great!

[Chroma72]

I'm sending ArrayBufferView through raw.emit. Is this faster than the regular emit?