[BUG] Soketi Does Not Connect

[renchris]

Description
Trying to set up a Soketi client connection without the need for a Pusher account and Pusher app. Unable to connect with the error message of App key does not exist

Reproduction steps
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install Soketi with pnpm install -g @soketi/soketi
2. Run Soketi with soketi start
3. Create Pusher client connection in application code (NextJS application)

import Pusher from 'pusher-js'

  const pusher = new Pusher(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SOKETI_DEFAULT_APP_ID ?? 'app-id', {
    cluster: 'us3',
    wsHost: '127.0.0.1',
    wsPort: 6001,
    forceTLS: false,
    enabledTransports: ['ws', 'wss'],
  })

4. Run application with pnpm dev
5. Go to localhost:3000 and receive the error and notice that the connection succeeds to connect.

Expected behavior
I would expect that the Pusher instance would be able to connect successfully to our local Soketi host and port address without the need for a Pusher account and app.

Screenshots

Environment

• Soketi version (i.e. 1.3.0): 1.6.0
• Adapter (local, redis): local
• App Manager (array, mysql, postgres, dynamodb) : array
• Queue (sqs, redis, sync): sync (?)
• Cache Managers (memory, redis): memory (?)

Configuration
Run the server with SOKETI_DEBUG=1 and paste the nested object configuration that outputs:

{
  adapter: {
    driver: 'local',
    redis: {
      requestsTimeout: 5000,
      prefix: '',
      redisPubOptions: {},
      redisSubOptions: {},
      clusterMode: false
    },
    cluster: { requestsTimeout: 5000 },
    nats: {
      requestsTimeout: 5000,
      prefix: '',
      servers: [ '127.0.0.1:4222' ],
      user: null,
      pass: null,
      token: null,
      timeout: 10000,
      nodesNumber: null
    }
  },
  appManager: {
    driver: 'array',
    cache: { enabled: false, ttl: -1 },
    array: {
      apps: [
        {
          id: 'app-id',
          key: 'app-key',
          secret: 'app-secret',
          maxConnections: -1,
          enableClientMessages: false,
          enabled: true,
          maxBackendEventsPerSecond: -1,
          maxClientEventsPerSecond: -1,
          maxReadRequestsPerSecond: -1,
          webhooks: []
        }
      ]
    },
    dynamodb: { table: 'apps', region: 'us-east-1', endpoint: null },
    mysql: { table: 'apps', version: '8.0', useMysql2: false },
    postgres: { table: 'apps', version: '13.3' }
  },
  cache: { driver: 'memory', redis: { redisOptions: {}, clusterMode: false } },
  channelLimits: { maxNameLength: 200, cacheTtl: 3600 },
  cluster: {
    hostname: '0.0.0.0',
    helloInterval: 500,
    checkInterval: 500,
    nodeTimeout: 2000,
    masterTimeout: 2000,
    port: 11002,
    prefix: '',
    ignoreProcess: true,
    broadcast: '255.255.255.255',
    unicast: null,
    multicast: null
  },
  cors: {
    credentials: true,
    origin: [ '*' ],
    methods: [ 'GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'OPTIONS' ],
    allowedHeaders: [
      'Origin',
      'Content-Type',
      'X-Auth-Token',
      'X-Requested-With',
      'Accept',
      'Authorization',
      'X-CSRF-TOKEN',
      'XSRF-TOKEN',
      'X-Socket-Id'
    ]
  },
  database: {
    mysql: {
      host: '127.0.0.1',
      port: 3306,
      user: 'root',
      password: 'password',
      database: 'main'
    },
    postgres: {
      host: '127.0.0.1',
      port: 5432,
      user: 'postgres',
      password: 'password',
      database: 'main'
    },
    redis: {
      host: '127.0.0.1',
      port: 6379,
      db: 0,
      username: null,
      password: null,
      keyPrefix: '',
      sentinels: null,
      sentinelPassword: null,
      name: 'mymaster',
      clusterNodes: []
    }
  },
  databasePooling: { enabled: false, min: 0, max: 7 },
  debug: 1,
  eventLimits: {
    maxChannelsAtOnce: 100,
    maxNameLength: 200,
    maxPayloadInKb: 100,
    maxBatchSize: 10
  },
  host: '0.0.0.0',
  httpApi: { requestLimitInMb: 100, acceptTraffic: { memoryThreshold: 85 } },
  instance: { process_id: 3201 },
  metrics: {
    enabled: false,
    driver: 'prometheus',
    host: '0.0.0.0',
    prometheus: { prefix: 'soketi_' },
    port: 9601
  },
  mode: 'full',
  port: 6001,
  pathPrefix: '',
  presence: { maxMembersPerChannel: 100, maxMemberSizeInKb: 2 },
  queue: {
    driver: 'sync',
    redis: { concurrency: 1, redisOptions: {}, clusterMode: false },
    sqs: {
      region: 'us-east-1',
      endpoint: null,
      clientOptions: {},
      consumerOptions: {},
      queueUrl: '',
      processBatch: false,
      batchSize: 1,
      pollingWaitTimeMs: 0
    }
  },
  rateLimiter: { driver: 'local', redis: { redisOptions: {}, clusterMode: false } },
  shutdownGracePeriod: 3000,
  ssl: { certPath: '', keyPath: '', passphrase: '', caPath: '' },
  userAuthenticationTimeout: 30000,
  webhooks: { batching: { enabled: false, duration: 50 } }
}

Additional context (Additional attempts)

I additionally tried using the server-side Pusher library pusher (pusher-http-node) and that did not help either. For that, I noticed that in the README.md it explicitly states a Pusher account and app are required, so I moved back to using the pusher-js library

I additionally tried both having the env variables inline in the terminal command with SOKETI_DEBUG=1 SOKETI_DEFAULT_APP_ID=app-id soketi start as well as with a config file with soketi start --config=soketi.config.json and the config file of

{
    "debug": true,
    "port": 6001,
    "appManager.array.apps": [
      {
        "id": "app-id",
        "key": "app-key",
        "secret": "app-secret",
        "maxConnections": -1,
        "enableClientMessages": false,
        "enabled": true,
        "maxBackendEventsPerSecond": -1,
        "maxClientEventsPerSecond": -1,
        "maxReadRequestsPerSecond": -1,
        "webhooks": []
      }
    ]
  }

I have my .env.local file to be

NEXT_PUBLIC_SOKETI_DEFAULT_APP_ID=app-id
NEXT_PUBLIC_SOKETI_PUSHER_KEY=key
NEXT_PUBLIC_SOKETI_PUSHER_SECRET=secret
NEXT_PUBLIC_SOKETI_PUSHER_CLUSTER=us3
SOKETI_DEBUG=1

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[Vap0r1ze]

i know this is late, but you need to use the app-key not the app-id

and the error is telling you that your environment variable doesnt exist, and its defaulting to the "app-id" string