Send message to other rooms in Socket.io

Question

I Know how to send message to all the clients in the same room. I am using below code to send message to clients in the same room (server side).

io.to(Array.from(socket.rooms)[1]).emit("send message","We are in Same room")
//Array.from(socket.rooms)[1] -> getting room number from the map

But now I want to send message to All the clients who are not in current room.

Does this answer your question? [Socket.io rooms difference between broadcast.to and sockets.in](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873607/socket-io-rooms-difference-between-broadcast-to-and-sockets-in) — Program_Lover, Jun 19 '21 at 19:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '21 at 19:52

Get the array with socket IDs from specific room and using that array to exclude from all connected sockets:

const socketsFromRoom = Array.from(await io.in("my_room").allSockets());

Array.from(await io.allSockets())
  .filter((socketId) => !socketsFromRoom.includes(socketId))
  .forEach((socketId) => {
    io.sockets.sockets.get(socketId).emit("send_message");
  });

Send message to other rooms in Socket.io

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