sse.getgin.io
Languages and libraries
server-sent events library
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, simple, effective demo
From 3 comments
This is beautifully done, and simple and effective. Great demo page!!
late2part on HNAwesome demo, although the troll comments are obnoxious. But I guess they're doing their part in showing off the "realtime" nature of the demo.
ohitsdom on HNSSE is awesome...except for the fact that IE has 0% support and is too popular to ignore. It is a very pretty demo tho, well done :)
fweespeech on HN
Go net/http makes SSE implementations simple
From 1 comment
Cool! I love net/http. Below is my stab from a while ago. It's more of an example than a library.…
wyc on HN
Objections
Websockets better suited for bidirectional chat
From 2 comments
SSE is awesome, and Gin seems to have a nice implementation. I definitely like the usage for realtime streaming stats since that's a one-way stream. Chat, however, would be…
andrewstuart2 on HNIt's not so much latency to me. It's the waste. There's both extra latency and extra byte overhead. It's a trivial implementation difference (in all the frameworks I'm familiar…
andrewstuart2 on HN
Browsers limit SSE connections per host
From 1 comment
Both Chrome and Firefox limit you to 6 simultaneous http connections to the same host. Try opening this app in 7 separate tabs, and you'll see the 7th one just spin and not even…
bjt on HN
Internet Explorer lacks SSE support
From 1 comment
SSE is awesome...except for the fact that IE has 0% support and is too popular to ignore. It is a very pretty demo tho, well done :)
fweespeech on HN
Requests
Better word than realtime
From 1 comment
Cool and all, but I really wish there was a better word than "realtime". I dislike when we hijack a word that already has a meaningful use.
JustSomeNobody on HN
Questions
How many simultaneous SSE connections can a server hold
From 2 comments
I'm curious what the bounds are on the client-side use case. For instance, machines can handle tons of simultaneous http connections, but it's easier to reach that limit if you…
tunesmith on HNI'm more wondering about the number of open HTTP connections that a server can support. Googling around, I see mentions of 64,000 for vanilla servers, perhaps millions depending…
tunesmith on HN
Alternatives named
Websockets
From 2 comments
SSE is awesome, and Gin seems to have a nice implementation. I definitely like the usage for realtime streaming stats since that's a one-way stream. Chat, however, would be…
andrewstuart2 on HNThat looks like a very high quality shim, so that is good. However, why would I want to use a shim over websockets? http://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets
fweespeech on HN
eventsource Go library
From 1 comment
If you are interested `eventsource` is a Server-sent event library that ties into the Go std http library. https://github.com/antage/eventsource
jweir on HN
Yaffle EventSource shim
From 1 comment
SSE is easy to shim! We use: https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource/
qubyte on HN