SseStream

A zero-dependency node stream for writing Server-Sent Events.

Installation

``
npm install ssestream
`

Or:

`
yarn add ssestream
`

Usage

In a (req, res) handler for a request event, Express #get route or similar:

`javascript
const SseStream = require('ssestream')

function (req, res) {
const sse = new SseStream(req)
sse.pipe(res)

const message = {
data: 'hello\nworld',
}
sse.write(message)
}
`

Properties on message:

* data - String or object, which gets turned into JSON
* event - (optional) String
* id - (optional) String
* retry - (optional) number
* comment - (optional) String

TypeScript

The SseStream#writeMessage(message) method is a type-safe alias for SseStream#write(message)`.