socket.emit not emitting messages to the sender

1. 'socket.emit' not sending messages to the client which sent it,while
2. 'socket.broadcast.emit' sending messages to all the clients including the sender.

I cannot figure out what I am missing here. For the second case, I checked for socket.id while sending the message and logged it when response is received,it turned out to be the same

socket.js

var socket = require('socket.io')(),
socketApi = {};

socketApi.io = socket;

socketApi.io.on('connection',(client) => {
    client.on('clientMessage', (msg) => {;
        console.log('hi');
        client.emit('serverMessage',msg);
    })
    client.on('disconnect',() => {
        socketApi.io.emit('serverMessage','client is disconnected');
        console.log('disconnected');
    })
})


module.exports = socketApi;

client.js

getServerResponse() {
        socket.on('serverMessage',(msg) => {
                console.log(msg);
            })
    }

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