Curious why is this trending? Btw sse are pretty great, only thing I don't get is why they don't allow for binary payloads. That'd have been the icing on the cake.
I've always appreciated that it's just a simple line-oriented UTF-8 text protocol. Binary transfers are handled more efficiently with something else. Or just base64 the payload if it's not that big of a deal.
I was implementing something with websockets and asked chatgpt to tell me about modern alternatives. In my years of full-stack… I hadn’t heard of SSE, or at least never got why I should care.
Damn, I see the limitations of REST, but I was building state machines and custom protocols with websockets. It’s nice to prototype in REST again.
REST+SSE ftw, I guess!
So also avoid HTTPS.
It's trending because it's the final real-time solution for eternity.
Turns out in their FAQ, they have this:
> Our API is designed to be a backend that incorporates Claude into any application you’ve developed. Our application sends text to our API, then receives a response via *server-sent events*, a streaming protocol for the web. We have API documentation with drop-in example code in Python and Typescript to get you started.
Was curious what it was and thought it was probably worth sharing.
Didn't knew OpenAI uses the same mechanism.