How to use Server Sent Events (SSE) in AdonisJS

[simonjcarr]

I need my Adonis API to send SSE events (Server Sent Events)

If I was using Express I would use res.write('data: Hello world from server\n\n')

Can I do the same thing in Adonis with response.send()?

If not, how do I achieve the same thing?

After some experimenting I am wondering if there is something missing in the Adonis Response. In Adonis 4 you could set response.implicitEnd = false to prevent buffering of the response.

I see in the code docs for Adonis 5 the following statement for response

This method buffers the body if explicitEnd = true, which is the default behavior and do not change, unless you know what you are doing.

But I don't see anyway of actually setting explicitEnd, so I assume response is doomed to always buffer??

[simonjcarr]

I solved this by using this library https://github.com/afidosstar/adonis-server-sent-events