Server Sent Events Demo

A small Server Sent Events demo for San Diego JS Meetup using Node, HTML, JavaScript, CSS. I also wrote a post on Medium about this topic.

Slides can be found here.

Running this Project

The following instructions assume Mac OS / Linux system with Python installed (to provide a simple web server).

Get the Code using a Terminal Window

git clone https://github.com/simonprickett/server-sent-events-demo.git
cd server-sent-events-demo

Start the Server in a Terminal Window

cd src/server
npm install
npm start

Start the Client in another Terminal Window

cd src/client
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Then point a browser at http://localhost:8000/.

Reference Materials

• MDN Server Sent Events Guide
• HTML 5 Rocks Tutorial
• O'Reilly High Performance Browser Networking SSE page
• Data source for cat facts
• Server Sent Events aren't implemented in MS Edge and are currently "under consideration"... read more and vote here