SocketIO/NodeJS - Error using socket.emit

Question

I'm using the following code:

 var app = require('http').createServer(); var io = require('socket.io')(app); app.listen(1337); io.on('connection', function (socket) { socket.emit("error", {title: 'Watch your mouth!', msg: 'Please watch your language, or go to the 18+ chat.'}); }); 

and I get the following error:

Error: Uncaught, unspecified "error" event. ([object Object]) Does anyone have any ideas of why this is?

Answer 1

Node.js has special handling for the error event, and will do that if you don't handle it. (to make sure that uncaught errors don't slip between the cracks)

Choose a different event name.