> I don't believe that HTTP streaming was designed with this pattern in mind
> server-sent events are a simpler solution
Fwiw Server-Sent Events are a protocol on top of HTTP Streaming.
In fact I'm somewhat surprised that the article doesn't mention it, instead rolling their own SSE alternative that looks (to my non-expert eyes) like a lower level version of the same thing. It seems a bit weird to me to use chunks as a package boundary, I'd worry that that has weird edge cases (eg won't large responses be split into multiple chunks?)
> server-sent events are a simpler solution
Fwiw Server-Sent Events are a protocol on top of HTTP Streaming.
In fact I'm somewhat surprised that the article doesn't mention it, instead rolling their own SSE alternative that looks (to my non-expert eyes) like a lower level version of the same thing. It seems a bit weird to me to use chunks as a package boundary, I'd worry that that has weird edge cases (eg won't large responses be split into multiple chunks?)