MongoWatchSSE

A simple way to enable realtime HTML applications, using Express.JS, Server-Sent-Events and MongoDB Watch Streams. MongoWatchSSE provides a Express.JS Get handler for easy integration.

NPM Package Dependencies

• mongodb-legacy
• express

Setup

To setup, just create a instance of MongoWatchSSE, then pass the stream.routerHandler to the router.get() callback.

Example

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var MongoWatchSSE = require("MongoWatchSSE")
var stream = new MongoWatchSSE({mongoDBCS: "mongodb://0.0.0.0:27017", collection: "test", db:"test"})
router.get('/events', stream.routerHandler);
module.exports = router;