[dbh937]

Is the streaming you talk about here and in the RFC over websockets, or the event-stream HTTP content type, or something more custom? Will the architecture have the potential to support realtime applications where the server will push updates to the client without the need to poll on an interval?

[danabramov]

It's just regular chunked encoding, which we consume via a ReadableStream[1]. The key part is that we're able to consume partial data because we read it row by row. Each row represents a piece of JSON with placeholders for missing values. When we receive a row, we try to "continue" rendering on the client, and if we have a loading state we can show (even before all values arrived), we do that.

>Will the architecture have the potential to support realtime applications where the server will push updates to the client without the need to poll on an interval?

I don't see why that wouldn't be possible.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Streams_API...