How do you stop listening to a socket.io channel?

If you want to remove only a specific event you can try socket.removeListener('you_event');

The off function can also be used.

• socket.off('news'); // stops listening to the "news" event
• socket.off('news', myFunction); // useful if you have multiple listeners for the same event
• socket.off(); // stops listening to all events

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Sources

According to the Socket.io Client Documentation "the socket actually inherits every method of the Emitter class, like hasListeners, once or off (to remove an event listener)."

Emitter documentation:

• Pass event and fn to remove a listener.
• Pass event to remove all listeners on that event.
• Pass nothing to remove all listeners on all events.

Try, socket.removeAllListeners("news");