sails-hook-sse

Sails Hook for server sent events, this extension adds a new method to Response Object (res) of SailsJs

How to install

add the following line to your package.json:

    "sails-hook-sse": "https://github.com/makmakulet/sails-hook-sse.git"

run npm install

    $ npm install

How to Use

Controller:

//-- api/controllers/TestController.js
module.exports = {
  index: function(req, res) {
    res.sse({field: [Math.random(), Math.random()]});
  },
  
   list: function(req, res) {
    res.sse('some_event', {field: [Math.random(), Math.random()]});
  }
};

Client Side:

var sseSource = new EventSource("/test");

sseSource.onmessage = function(e) {
  console.log(e.data);
}

SSE method | res.sse( data ) | res.sse( event, data )

@data: <object | string> value to be emitted by server on the connected client.

@return: the @data as an event-stream