Access to standard socket.io functions

[cooltrooper]

Is it possible to use standard socket.io events, say for running functions not directly involving backbone. Such as the beginner code shown on the socket.io site

[scttnlsn]

Absolutely. On the server, the call to backboneio.listen returns the Socket.IO object:

var io = backboneio.listen(...);
io.sockets.emit('foo');

Client-side, there's something similar:

var socket = Backbone.io.connect();
socket.on('foo', function() { ... });