socket.io.js not found
Please check your Express version. Express recently is updated to 3.0alpha which API was changed. If 3.0 you can change your code to something likes this:
var express = require('express') , http = require('http');var app = express();var server = http.createServer(app);var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);...server.listen(8000);Same issue with connect: https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/issues/500#issuecomment-4620773
Using with the Express 3 web framework: (from socket.io)
> Express 3 requires that you instantiate a http.Server to attach socket.io to first:
meaning - (1) you must create a server instance:
var app = express();var http = require('http').createServer(app);(2) couple it with the socket.io:
var io = require('socket.io');io.listen(http);and ONLY THEN - (3) make the server listen:
http.listen(8080);make sure you keep this order!
After installing node 0.8.1 I had the same problem.I just deleted the node_modules map in my project folder and reinstalled express/socket.io.After that it worked fine again with the code in your question.