Comment by mromanuk
3 years ago
I had previously used SSE in a project and had no idea it existed or that it was widely supported by most browsers. It's a beautiful and straightforward technology, but it doesn't seem to be as widely used as it should be, and more tooling is required. Also more tooling is required.
100% onboard with better tooling.
Starting with out of the box swagger support: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/396
Shame they are not interested in adding it.
The really huge issue with SSE, and the reason why it’s historically been dismissed, is that it us subject to (and counts towards) the HTTP 1.1 domain connection limit.
Sadly that makes it a bit of a pain in the ass to manage for sites served as (/ compatible with) http 1.1.
I know SSE works on scenarios with few or no state updates, like in dashboard UI's. What about other cases where they deal with input data? like in a chat/game
That’s the beauty, the client just do a normal HTTP request. It really simplify the system.