Learn how to use server-sent events to enable a client to receive automatic updates from a server via an HTTP connection, with examples.

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This post explores how to use server-sent events in Node.js for enabling automatic updates from a server to a client via an HTTP connection. It discusses the usefulness of server-sent events and demonstrates practical implementations with Node.js. Server-sent events provide a simpler and more lightweight alternative to Ajax polling for live data updates.

How to Use Server-sent Events in Node.js — SitePoint

<p>Very insightful post. Accompanied by websockets, it can be ovelooked easily. But a developer should know the tools under his hands even though he is not using that tool much. I will be considering to try in my projects in order to learn. Maybe some would try to taste it too.</p>
