manage user status in socket.io code example
Example: how to check whether the user is online or not using socket.io
const users = {};
io.on('connection', function(socket){
console.log('a user connected');
socket.on('login', function(data){
console.log('a user ' + data.userId + ' connected');
// saving userId to array with socket ID
users[socket.id] = data.userId;
});
socket.on('disconnect', function(){
console.log('user ' + users[socket.id] + ' disconnected');
// remove saved socket from users object
delete users[socket.id];
});
});