Server-sent events

History

Overview

Web browsers

Libraries

.NET

• EventSource library with both server and client implementations.

  ASP.NET

• - Transparent implementation for ASP.NET.

  C

• Asynchronous server-side SSE daemon written in C.

  Erlang

• EventSource server handler for Erlang's cowboy
• EventSource client in Erlang

  Go

• EventSource library for Go.
• SSE implementation for Go.

  Java

• - Server-side asynchronous implementation for Java servlets and Vert.x
• since version 10.0.8
• EventSource library for alpakka which supports reconnection
• Server and client side Java implementation built on reactive streams and non-blocking servers
• has a full implementation of JAX-RS support for Server Sent Events as defined in
• HTTP server supports emitting Server Sent Events
• - Server-side library with user/session management, group broadcast, and authentication
• has server and client-side asynchronous SSE implementation built on top of Netty and Reactive Streams
• Event Source for server-sent event emition

  Node.js

• - Node.js/Browserify implementation.
• - web application framework for Node.js - + supports WebSockets
• - EventSource client for Node.js
• - A library for Node.js and web browser to develop security and high-performance SSE.

  Objective C

• - EventSource implementation in Objective-C for iOS and macOS using NSURLSession.

  Perl

• - Perl real-time web framework.

  PHP

• - Server implementation.

  Python

• - EventSource client library for Python using Requests library.
• - EventSource client library for Python using Requests or urllib3 library.
• - Server-Sent Events for Django.
• - A simple Flask extension powered by Redis.
• - Implementation in python2 with Tornado. Client and server implementations.

  Ruby

• - Simple pub/sub messaging for the web.

  Rust

• A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.

  Scala

• since version 10.0.8
• EventSource library for which supports reconnection

  Swift

• - EventSource implementation using NSURLSession