tomkersten / sses-node-example

Example of Express.js application providing Server-Sent Events (SSEs) on top of Redis pub/sub connection

Server-Sent Events (SSEs), Node.js (Express.js), and Redis

This is an example application demonstrating one way to approach delivering Server-Sent Events with Node.js (leveraging Express.js).

The application accompanies a blog post at: http://tomkersten.com/articles/server-sent-events-with-node/

Requirements

1. Redis
2. Node.js
3. Express.js

Using it...

1. Clone the repo locally
2. cd into the cloned directory and run node app.js
3. Visit http://localhost:8000/ in one browser window (Page A)
4. Open another window and visit http://localhost:8000/fire-event/anything-you-want-here (Page B)
5. Look at 'Page A' again...and you should see a message including the name of the page you visited ('anything-you-want-here')
   1. Additionally, if you open up redis-cli and issue PUBLISH updates 'some message here', you should see your message show up as well.