Quick Tip: Set socket.io log level in zappajs

I've been working on a zappajs based website that has a socket.io connection to the browser. By default socket.io likes to output a lot of debug text. I got tired of seeing it all and wanted to turn it off. Thankfully, it's easy.

At the top level of your zappajs instance definition, right alongside where you define your @use statements, define routes/templates, and so on, you can call into the @io object, which is a reference into the socket.io server-side instance. You just put:

@io.set 'log level', 1

-- or if you like closer to "regular" javascript syntax you can do: --

@io.set('log level', 1)

Log level 1 is the least chatty of them all. You can see the different levels to choose the one you want here.