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Realtime data streaming using server-sent events(SSE) with react.js and node.js - DEV Community

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We live in a world where real-time data streaming has become paramount. Real-time data streaming has...

We live in a world where real-time data streaming has become paramount. Real-time data streaming has become a necessity in modern applications because it keeps users notified immediately an event happens. But most of the communication we see on the internet involves a client application making a request to the server which in turn processes the request and send back response to the client. This takes time to process and there are scenarios where a server needs to send data to the client without the client necessarily initiating a request. This could be done using long polling, websockets, webh

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