eventsource-polyfill

EventSource Polyfill
====================

Provide polyfill to support EventSource in browser where it is not available.

> - Used in production
> - Tested in Internet Explorer 8 +
> - Tested in Android browser 2.1 +
> - [Documented][]
> - Run the [Browser test suite][]

Installing
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Download suitable project archive (zip or tar.gz) from [release page][]

Include in your html documents one of the following javascript file:

> - dist/eventsource.js
> - dist/eventsource.min.js (minified version)

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To install package from bower registry, type :

bower install eventsource-polyfill

Include in your html documents one of the following javascript file:

> - bower\_components/eventsource-polyfill/dist/eventsource.js
> - bower\_components/eventsource-polyfill/dist/eventsource.min.js (minified version)

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To install package from npm registry, type :

npm install eventsource-polyfill

Note that this package may only be used with in browser application.

If you are using [browserify][] , you just have to require this package in your main module…

`` sourceCode
// load (Polyfill) EventSource, in case browser does not support it...
require('eventsource-polyfill');
``

Run the tests now
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With your web browser visit this [test site][Browser test suite]

Allow sufficient time ( ~ 5 minutes) for the full Test Suite to run…

Project content
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dist/
built version of javascript modules

javascript/
Contains polyfill module and related unit tests

test_server/
python server which generates easy to test event stream

docs/
documentation wiki

[Documented]: https://github.com/amvtek/EventSource/wiki
[Browser test suite]: http://testevs.amvtek.com/
[release page]: https://github.com/amvtek/EventSource/releases/latest
[browserify]: http://browserify.org