express-stream-sse v1.0.2

express-stream-sse

Convert NodeJS streams to Server-Sent Events express routes (EventSource)

Install

npm i -S express-stream-sse

Usage

import express from 'express';
import streamToSSE from 'express-stream-sse';

let app = express();

app.get('/events', function(req, res) {

    var stream = require('./getSampleStream');

    return streamToSSE(res, stream);

});

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 4000);

Then on the client side you can :

var source = new EventSource('/events');

source.onmessage = function(e) {
  document.body.innerHTML += e.data + '<br>';
};

Dependencies

Author

Julien Bouquillon julien@bouquillon.com http://github.com/revolunet

License

• MIT : http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT