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MetinSeylan/Vue-Socket.io
😻 Socket.io implementation for Vuejs and Vuex
A Vue 2 plugin that bridges socket.io-client with Vue components and Vuex, letting you listen to socket events via a `sockets` component option or Vuex action/mutation prefixes. Targets Vue 2 apps that need real-time updates without wiring socket listeners manually. Small API surface, minimal abstraction.
The Vuex integration pattern — auto-dispatching prefixed actions on socket events — eliminates a lot of boilerplate for store-driven apps. Accepting either a connection string or a pre-built socket.io-client instance gives you escape hatches when you need custom transports or auth headers. Dynamic subscribe/unsubscribe at the component level handles use cases like per-route listeners without lifecycle hacks. The source is tiny (four files in src/) so reading the whole thing takes 15 minutes.
Explicitly badges Vue 2.x and has been dead since February 2023 — no Vue 3 / Composition API support whatsoever, which means it's a non-starter for any new project. The string-prefix approach for Vuex events (`SOCKET_connect`, `SOCKET_customEmit`) is fragile and untyped; a typo in the prefix silently drops events. No TypeScript beyond a shallow `index.d.ts` that mostly types the constructor options, not the component-level `sockets` object or `$socket`. The 3,900 stars are trailing indicator from 2018–2020 peak Vue 2 adoption, not a signal of active maintenance.