NODE.JS accessing shared variable in socket.IO event handler?

The code you've shown is atomic (it will completely finish before another event handler can run), so you shouldn't have any synchronization issues. Remember that in node, all user-written code runs in a single thread. If somebody else is trying to connect, it won't interrupt what you're doing.

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