How to stream JSON data using server-sent events?

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Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a simple and efficient technology for sending real-time updates from the server to the web browser over a single HTTP connection. By @workfall.com.

In this blog, authors will cover:

  • What are server-sent events?
  • Why stream data using server-sent events (SSE)?
  • What is FastAPI?
  • Hands-on

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance web framework for creating Python APIs using standard type hints. Its performance is comparable to NodeJS and Go, owing to Starlette and pydantic.

In this hands-on project, we learned about using Server-Sent Events to smoothly stream JSON data using FastAPI. We started by making a new project using PyCharm IDE and putting in the necessary stuff we need. Then, we got FastAPI set up in our project. Excellent guide!

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