6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Socket.IO first-hand: 1 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“based on socket.io and sqlite. It works vastly better for my use cases, since socketio and sqlite are so mature.”
endorse · personal · williamstein · 2025-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated a large part of our existing socket.io implementation to use plain REST.”
regret · production · julianlam · 2022-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had terrible experiences with vanilla socket.io regarding reconnections, performance, and reliability.”
regret · production · yid · 2015-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“refactoring the websocket server code out of socket.io was a great decision. Socket.io has a lot of bloat that isn't required”
regret · production · wavephorm · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using socket.io, express, crypto module, etc.”
neutral · production · babuskov · 2012-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use the same stuff with Socket.IO instead of REST”
neutral · production · bergie · 2011-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?