Scrolling log file (tail -f) animation using javascript

Question

I\'d like to create an animation on a website to mimic a scrolling log file or tail -f. I\'d feed it a list of fake log messages and they would be written to the bottom of t

Answer 1

Here is a great solution

This uses an ajax request, and the HTTP Range: header to request only the last ~30KB of a log file. It then polls for data appended to that file, and only ever retrieves new data (no refreshing the whole file, or even the last 30KB). Handles file truncation too.

https://github.com/ukhas/js-logtail#readme