EventSource polyfill - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html#server-sent-events

Installing:

You can get the code from npm or bower:

npm install event-source-polyfill

bower install event-source-polyfill

Just include src/eventsource.js or src/eventsource.min.js in your page to use the polyfill.

Ionic2/Angular2 Installation:

Unless a typescript definition file is created for this polyfill, this is how you would use it in an Ionic2 project. It should (in theory) be very similar in an Angular2 project.

npm install event-source-polyfill

Add to (or create) src/app/polyfills.ts (path is relative to where polyfills.ts is) :

import 'path/to/event-source-polyfill/src/eventsource.min.js'

Add anywhere you need access to EventSourcePolyfill class :

declare var EventSourcePolyfill: any;

Usage with webpack/browserify:

1import { NativeEventSource, EventSourcePolyfill } from 'event-source-polyfill';
2
3const EventSource = NativeEventSource || EventSourcePolyfill;
4// OR: may also need to set as global property
5global.EventSource =  NativeEventSource || EventSourcePolyfill;

Browser support:

• IE 10+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 3+, Safari 4+, Opera 12+
• IE 8 - IE 9: XDomainRequest is used internally, which has some limitations (2KB padding in the beginning is required, no way to send cookies, no way to use client certificates)
• It works on Mobile Safari, Opera Mobile, Chrome for Android, Firefox for Android
• It does not work on: Android Browser(requires 4 KB padding after every chunk), Opera Mini

Advantages:

• Simple server-side code
• Cross-domain requests support

Server-side requirements:

• "Last-Event-ID" is sent in a query string (CORS + "Last-Event-ID" header is not supported by all browsers)
• It is required to send 2 KB padding for IE < 10 and Chrome < 13 at the top of the response stream (the polyfill sends padding=true query argument)
• You need to send "comment" messages each 15-30 seconds, these messages will be used as heartbeat to detect disconnects - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444328

Specification:

• http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/

Build:

• To build EventSource, just install npm modules (npm install) and then run the build (npm run build). It should generate a new version of src/eventsource.min.js.

Notes:

• If you are using HTTP Basic Authentication, you can embed credentials into the URL - http://username:password@github.com.

Custom Headers:

var es = new EventSourcePolyfill('/events', {
  headers: {
    'X-Custom-Header': 'value'
  }
});

Custom query parameter name for the last event id:

• Some server require a special query parameter name for last-event-id, you can change that via option
• The default is lastEventId
• Example for mercure-hub (https://mercure.rocks/)

var es = new EventSourcePolyfill(hubUrl, {
  lastEventIdQueryParameterName: 'Last-Event-Id'
});

Other EventSource polyfills:

• https://github.com/remy/polyfills/blob/master/EventSource.js by Remy Sharp
• https://github.com/rwldrn/jquery.eventsource by Rick Waldron
• https://github.com/amvtek/EventSource by AmvTek

EXAMPLE

server-side (node.js)

1var PORT = 8081;
2
3var http = require("http");
4var fs = require("fs");
5var url = require("url");
6
7http.createServer(function (request, response) {
8  var parsedURL = url.parse(request.url, true);
9  var pathname = parsedURL.pathname;
10  if (pathname === "/events.php") {
11
12    response.writeHead(200, {
13      "Content-Type": "text/event-stream",
14      "Cache-Control": "no-store",
15      "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*"
16    });
17
18    var padding = new Array(2049);
19    response.write(":" + padding.join(" ") + "\n"); // 2kB padding for IE
20    response.write("retry: 2000\n");
21
22    var lastEventId = Number(request.headers["last-event-id"]) || Number(parsedURL.query.lastEventId) || 0;
23
24    var timeoutId = 0;
25    var i = lastEventId;
26    var c = i + 100;
27    var f = function () {
28      if (++i < c) {
29        response.write("id: " + i + "\n");
30        response.write("data: " + i + "\n\n");
31        timeoutId = setTimeout(f, 1000);
32      } else {
33        response.end();
34      }
35    };
36
37    f();
38
39    response.on("close", function () {
40      clearTimeout(timeoutId);
41    });
42
43  } else {
44    if (pathname === "/") {
45      pathname = "/index.html";
46    }
47    if (pathname === "/index.html" || pathname === "../src/eventsource.js") {
48      response.writeHead(200, {
49        "Content-Type": pathname === "/index.html" ? "text/html" : "text/javascript"
50      });
51      response.write(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + pathname));
52    }
53    response.end();
54  }
55}).listen(PORT);

or use PHP (see php/events.php)

1<?php
2
3  header("Content-Type: text/event-stream");
4  header("Cache-Control: no-store");
5  header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
6
7  $lastEventId = floatval(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_LAST_EVENT_ID"]) ? $_SERVER["HTTP_LAST_EVENT_ID"] : 0);
8  if ($lastEventId == 0) {
9    $lastEventId = floatval(isset($_GET["lastEventId"]) ? $_GET["lastEventId"] : 0);
10  }
11
12  echo ":" . str_repeat(" ", 2048) . "\n"; // 2 kB padding for IE
13  echo "retry: 2000\n";
14
15  // event-stream
16  $i = $lastEventId;
17  $c = $i + 100;
18  while (++$i < $c) {
19    echo "id: " . $i . "\n";
20    echo "data: " . $i . ";\n\n";
21    ob_flush();
22    flush();
23    sleep(1);
24  }
25
26?>

index.html (php/index.html):

1<!DOCTYPE html>
2<html>
3<head>
4    <meta charset="utf-8" />
5    <title>EventSource example</title>
6    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
7    <script src="../src/eventsource.js"></script>
8    <script>
9      var es = new EventSource("events.php");
10      var listener = function (event) {
11        var div = document.createElement("div");
12        var type = event.type;
13        div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(type + ": " + (type === "message" ? event.data : es.url)));
14        document.body.appendChild(div);
15      };
16      es.addEventListener("open", listener);
17      es.addEventListener("message", listener);
18      es.addEventListener("error", listener);
19    </script>
20</head>
21<body>
22</body>
23</html>

Usage in node.js:

With some dynamic imports it may work in node.js:

Install the library and the dependency: npm install @titelmedia/node-fetch npm install event-source-polyfill

x.js:

1// The @titelmedia/node-fetch is used instead of node-fetch as it supports ReadableStream Web API
2import('@titelmedia/node-fetch').then(function (fetch) {
3  globalThis.fetch = fetch.default;
4  globalThis.Response = fetch.default.Response;
5  import('event-source-polyfill').then(function (x) {
6    var es = new x.default.EventSourcePolyfill('http://localhost:8004/events');
7    es.onerror = es.onopen = es.onmessage = function (event) {
8      console.log(event.type + ': ' + event.data);
9    };
10  });
11});

node --experimental-modules ./x.js

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2012 vic99999@yandex.ru

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