Socket.io In Express Routes File

I'm working on a project which consists in creating a game of the goose like. In order to do that, I'm using Node.js, Express, jade and now Socket.io. But I encounter some trouble,

Solution 1:

First of all, I'm not sure what your question exactly means, but if it is what I think it is then I think what you mean by using socket.io in a route file is to be able to include the client side javascript lib provided with socket.io module of Node.

In order to do that, you have to allow the socket.io module to listen to server. This works like a middle-ware itself. Everything has to go through socket.io first before they are routed to the server. So, when you request the client side lib, it is uploaded to the client.

var express = require('express')
  , routes = require('./routes')
  , http = require('http');

var app = express();
var server = app.listen(3000);
var io = require('socket.io').listen(server)