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by kdunglas 543 days ago
SSE/Mercure (as WebSockets) is much battery-efficient than polling (push vs poll, less bandwidth used).

Additionally, on controlled environnements, SSE can use a « push proxy » to wake up the device only when necessary: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.ht...