Separating clients from the admin panel with socket.io and namespaces

clients-vs-admin.js

// Server

var admin = io.of('/admin'),
    client = io.of('');

admin.on('connection', function (socket) {
  socket.on('message', function(m) {
    console.log(m);
  });

  admin.emit('message1', 'Message1: admin to admin');
  client.emit('message1', 'Message1: admin to client');
});

client.on('connection', function(socket) {
  socket.on('message', function(m) {
    console.log(m);
  });
  
  admin.emit('message2', 'Message2: client to admin');
  client.emit('message2', 'Message2: client to client');
});

// Client: index.js

var socket = io.connect(document.URL);

socket.on('connect', function() {
  socket.emit('message', 'Message: sent by socket.emit');
});

socket.on('message1', function(m) {
  console.log(m);
});

socket.on('message2', function(m) {
  console.log(m);
});

// Client: admin.js

var socket = io.connect(document.URL);

socket.on('connect', function () {
  socket.emit('message', 'connectedToAdmin');
});

socket.on('message1', function(m) {
	console.log(m);
});

socket.on('message2', function(m) {
  console.log(m);
});