Socket.io - Manual reconnect after client-side disconnect

If you're using Socket.io 1.0, try using the io manager on the socket to handle manual disconnection and reconnection.

// Connect to socket.io 
var socket = io.connect('url');

function manual_disconnect() {
   socket.io.disconnect();
}

function manual_reconnect() {
   socket.io.reconnect();
}

The reconnecting_attempt, reconnecting, reconnected and connected events on the socket should all be emitted afterwards.

It works now, with socket.socket.reconnect()

function socket_connect()
{
    console.log('func socket_connect');
    socket = io.connect('http://url/to/the/app');
}

function socket_reconnect()
{
    console.log('func socket_reconnect');
    socket.socket.reconnect();
}

function socket_disconnect ()
{
    console.log('func socket_disconnect');
    if (socket) socket.disconnect();
}

Related: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io-client/issues/251

You can reconnect by following client side config.

 // for socket.io version 1.0
io.connect(SERVER_IP,{'forceNew':true });