Server Sent Events - Test Server

This package implements a simple server that generates Server Sent Events for your test pages to read. It streams fake data from jsonplaceholder to your website on a semi-regular schedule.

How to Use This Server

If you do not already have Go (version 1.17 or higher) installed on your machine, you can download an installation for your machine from the Go website
Open up a terminal window and navigate to this directory. Start up the WebSocket server by typing go run server.go
Open your web browser to http://localhost to run the manual tests. Huzzah!

JSON Event Streams

Streams random JSON records every second (or so) to your client.

/posts.json
/comments.json
/albums.json
/photos.json
/todos.json
/users.json

HTML Event Streams

Streams random HTML fragments every second (or so) to your client. These streams are used by the manual htmx tests.

/posts.html
/comments.html
/albums.html
/photos.html
/todos.html
/users.html

Specifying Event Types

You can add a type= parameter to your URLs to specify the event name(s) that you want the server to use. You can specify multiple names in a comma separated list and the server will alternate between them. If you do not specify a type, then the default message name of message is used.

About

This server is also published independently at [https://github.com/benpate/sseplaceholder]

It is inspired by jsonplaceholder -- "a free online REST API that you can use whenever you need some fake data."

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