Merge pull request #24 from csc301-winter-2019/feat/8

Add live updates functionality

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/web/routes/sse.js b/web/routes/sse.js
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+module.exports = function (req, res, next) {
+  res.sseSetup = function() {
+    res.writeHead(200, {
+      'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream',
+      'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
+      'Connection': 'keep-alive'
+    })
+  }
+
+  res.sseSend = function(data) {
+    res.write("data: " + JSON.stringify(data) + "\n\n");
+  }
+
+  next()
+}
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