In a list of events I present on a web page I want to offer the feature to get "live" updates in case of an event on the server side. So kind of a live monitor instead of reloading the list in a polling cycle.
I guess I need something like this:
- Client: open a socket to the server (ajax like),
listening for events,
if an event comes, update the visible list.
- Server: if such socket has been opened:
propagate any event through that socket.
Is there something like a jQuery extension suitable for this purpose ?
You can take a look at node.js.
But for a simple solution, all you need is define is setInterval that sends an ajax request every few seconds/minutes.
//runs every 3 seconds
setInterval(function(){
//do ajax and refresh list
},3000);
Of course if the polling should happen very often ,this solution is not very good, in that case you should look at a long polling solution.