Update redis configurations for production
set socket.io origins config to any host
update gitignore for logs and misc files
update package.json
add much cleaner logging
Switch from Socket.io to SockJS

Create wrappers around standard SockJS objects (for custom events, rooms, etc)
Use this new functionality to replace socket.io completely with SockJS
Also implement handy-dandy custom logging (wasted too much time on this)