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A simple long-polling example based on Flask-restful and jQuery

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Simple examples for long-polling and server sent events

Simple example for long-polling and server sent events using Flask and Flask-restful on server side and jQuery on client side.

Requirements:

  • Flask-restful (pip install flask-restful).

How to try it:

  • Clone the repository
  • Execute the server (python server.py)
  • For long polling demo open the url http://127.0.0.1:5000/
    • Change and savedata.txt to see how it works
  • For server sent events example http://127.0.0.1:5000/sse
    • Observe timestamp values streamed from server