---
title: "How to Use Server-sent Events in Node.js — SitePoint"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-server-sent-events-in-node-js-sitepoint-z4fmnw8iu
source_url: https://www.sitepoint.com/server-sent-events-node-js/
type: article
source: "SitePoint"
published: 2024-02-27T19:31:16.920Z
updated: 2026-05-21T02:14:26.905Z
tags: ["javascript", "nodejs", "server-sent-events", "webdev"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 9
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How to Use Server-sent Events in Node.js — SitePoint

**[SitePoint](https://daily.dev/sources/sitepoint)** · 7 min read · 9 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

This post explores how to use server-sent events in Node.js for enabling automatic updates from a server to a client via an HTTP connection. It discusses the usefulness of server-sent events and demonstrates practical implementations with Node.js. Server-sent events provide a simpler and more lightweight alternative to Ajax polling for live data updates.

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**@ardelon** · 1 upvotes

> Very insightful post. Accompanied by websockets, it can be ovelooked easily. But a developer should know the tools under his hands even though he is not using that tool much. I will be considering to try in my projects in order to learn. Maybe some would try to taste it too.

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