@tillhub/node-ssestream
v1.1.0
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Send Server-Sent Events with a stream
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SseStream
A node stream for writing Server-Sent Events
Installation
npm install ssestream
Or:
yarn add ssestream
Usage
In a (req, res)
handler for a request
event, Express #get route or similar:
const SseStream = require('ssestream')
const customHeaders = {'Cache-Control': 'no-cache, no-transform'} // optional
function (req, res) {
const sse = new SseStream(req)
sse.pipe(res, undefined, customHeaders)
const message = {
data: 'hello\nworld',
}
sse.write(message)
}
Properties on message
:
data
(String or object, which gets turned into JSON)event
id
retry
comment