Can't connect to server with socket.io on both client and server - ios

Question

I just started building me server using socket.io for both my client and Node.js server side.
I'm writing an Objective-c project so i walk through the process of adjusting my project to use Swift alongside with Objective-c which was a pain but it seems to be ok now.
The thing is, when i try to do a simple connect to my server, which prints to log on each connection, nothing happens.
This is the code for the server (Taken from here):
var fs = require('fs')
, http = require('http')
, socketio = require('socket.io');
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-type': 'text/html'});
}).listen(8080, function() {
console.log('Listening at: http://localhost:8080');
});
socketio.listen(server).on('connection', function (socket) {
console.log('Connected');
socket.on('message', function (msg) {
console.log('Message Received: ', msg);
socket.broadcast.emit('message', msg);
});
});
Super simple, really nothing to it.
And the Objective-c code for my client which is even more simple:
- (void) connect
{
SocketIOClient* client = [[SocketIOClient alloc]initWithSocketURL:#"http://127.0.0.1:8080/" options:nil];
[client connect];
}
But i can't see nothing on my console except the Listening at: http://localhost:8080 message.
I can't seem to find what i'm doing wrong here, and the fact that the swift debugging is horrible in this combined project, i can't really fully go through the socket.io debugging myself (but i'm pretty sure nothing's wrong with their code)
Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

plz confirm, if you are using the simulator for iOS testing. For device, you need to assign public address to your NodeJS server, and then need to use it's ip in iOS Codebase.
I had used https://github.com/pkyeck/socket.IO-objc during my last project and it worked like a charm.
For simulator, your code should ideally work.