better-sse vs eventsource

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better-sse		eventsource
	Project
5	Mentions	2
163	Stars	871
-	Growth	1.3%
6.8	Activity	3.1
3 months ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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better-sse

Posts with mentions or reviews of better-sse. 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

I wrote a library for using SSE with Node and have read the spec front-to-back dozens of times when I was working on it, so I have a fairly good understanding if you have any more unanswered questions!
I made a library to make it a breeze to work with server-sent events, server push without websockets
3 projects | /r/node | 6 Oct 2021

It actually originally started out as an Express middleware, but I then rewrote it to use the underlying Node HTTP native module so it could work with most/all frameworks, and then relied on creating a Recipes section in the docs to demonstrate how to create your own abstractions.
A beginner friendly intro to server sent events with node.js
5 projects | /r/node | 9 Jan 2021

I've been working on a library that makes working with server-sent events easier on the server-side that can hopefully be relevant here.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

fetch-event-source - A better API for making Event Source requests, with all the features of fetch()

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.

firebase-js-sdk - Firebase Javascript SDK

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

EventSource - a polyfill for http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/

everything-chat

gungi.io - Online real-time website to play Gungi from Hunter × Hunter ⚡

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..

feathers - The API and real-time application framework

EventSource - Server-sent events in Swift

WHATWG HTML Standard - HTML Standard

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