Streaming data with Node.js

Question

I want to know if it is possible to stream data from the server to the client with Node.js. I want to post a single AJAX request to Node.js, then leave the connection open a

Answer 1

You can also abort the infinite loop:

app.get('/sse/events', function(req, res) {
    res.header('Content-Type', 'text/event-stream');

    var interval_id = setInterval(function() {
        res.write("some data");
    }, 50);

    req.socket.on('close', function() {
        clearInterval(interval_id);
    }); 
}); 

This is an example of expressjs. I believe that without expressjs will be something like.