eventsource vs express-sse

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eventsource		express-sse
	Project
2	Mentions	1
872	Stars	101
1.5%	Growth	-
3.1	Activity	0.0
6 months ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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eventsource

Posts with mentions or reviews of eventsource. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-14.

How is barely anyone talking about the Server-Sent Events API?
2 projects | /r/webdev | 14 Jun 2023

In addition to what /u/MatthewMob posted, here is another library/ polyfill that I have used in the past: https://github.com/EventSource/eventsource
Everything ChatGPT – under the hood of the ChatGPT web app
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2023

[1] https://github.com/EventSource/eventsource/issues/94

express-sse

Posts with mentions or reviews of express-sse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

How to send initial data using express-sse?
1 project | /r/node | 30 Oct 2022

Im using express-sse package (https://github.com/dpskvn/express-sse) and I wonder how can I send initial data. I am sending notifications when products have changed for example and I also want to send all the notifications as initial data.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing eventsource and express-sse you can also consider the following projects:

better-sse - ⬆ Dead simple, dependency-less, spec-compliant server-side events implementation for Node, written in TypeScript.

centrifuge-js - JavaScript client SDK to communicate with Centrifugo and Centrifuge-based server from browser, NodeJS and React Native. Supports WebSocket, HTTP-streaming over Fetch and Readable Stream API, EventSource, WebTransport and SockJS.

everything-chatgpt - 🔍 Explore what happens under the hood with the ChatGPT web app, its backend API calls and more. And some speculation, of course.

everything-chat

Swell - Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..

EventSource - Server-sent events in Swift

microcosmos - Experimental Node 15 (ES6) HTTP/2 API Framework 🚀🌌