Sync sockets. about socket-client

[cboden]

Not at this time. React's initial design was to be fully asynchronous and evented through the Reactor. That being said, if handleData were to return a string this would be possible.

[clue]

👎 on introducing synchronous code in an async library

I've looked into this with @cboden, however I believe this requires more work than it appears to on the surface and is therefor a bad idea to introduce in React.

React's design is entirely based on the idea of async I/O and that blocking method calls must be avoided. This might seem confusing at first, and probably won't fit all people's needs. However, this provides some great features and performance not otherwise achieved in blocking implementations.

I believe there are better alternatives than using React if you need blocking methods calls.