How to reconnect to websocket after close connection

Question

I construct my websocket connection with this code (e.g.):

var socket = new WebSocket("ws://94.12.176.177:8080");

And I close the connection with this one:

socket.close();

But how do I reestablish connection?

I've done some research and tried several methods. This question could not help me: Socket.io reconnect on disconnect? It's the only result which close to what I'm looking for.

The reason I want to do this is to allow users to stop sending data to the web temporary, and resending again after a period of time. Without reconnection, user have to refresh the page in order to resend. This may cause some data lost. Thank you.

Answer 1

When the server closes the connection, the client does not try to reconnect. With some JS frameworks maybe, but the question was, at the time of this answer, tagged as plain Vanilla JS.

I'm a bit frustrated because the accepted, upvoted answer is plainly wrong, and it cost me some additional time while finding the correct solution.

Which is here: Reconnection of Client when server reboots in WebSocket