nodejs/express - stream stdout instantly to the client

Question

I spawned the following child: var spw = spawn(\'ping\', [\'-n\',\'10\', \'127.0.0.1\']) and I would like to receive the ping results on the client side (

Answer 1

If you are using Google Chrome, changing the content-type to "text/event-stream" does what your looking for.

res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/event-stream" });

See my gist for complete example: https://gist.github.com/sfarthin/9139500