BrowserStreamingJson

Basic PoC for streaming JSON in the browser without Websockets/WebRTC. Makes a fetch request to an endpoint that slowly returns the elements of a JSON array (100 elements over 10 seconds). However, instead of waiting for the response to complete before anything happens, a <p> element is appended to the DOM for every element of the JSON array as it arrives over the wire.

Currently only works in Chrome, because Firefox does not support TextDecoderStream.

Instructions

1. yarn install

2. node server.js

3. Navigate to localhost:3000/test.html in Chrome (see above for why Firefox won't work).

To test the mini-parser in isolation, run node json_stream.js.