Streaming API Patterns

About

This skill provides production-ready patterns for real-time communication, specializing in Server-Sent Events (SSE) for LLM streaming and WebSockets for bidirectional data flow. It equips developers with best-practice implementations for handling backpressure, exponential backoff reconnection strategies, and efficient buffer management. Whether you are building AI chat interfaces, live financial dashboards, or collaborative tools, this skill ensures your streaming architecture is resilient and optimized for 2025+ web standards.

Key Features

• Advanced backpressure handling with the ReadableStream API
• Exponential backoff and robust reconnection strategies
• 6 GitHub stars
• Bidirectional WebSocket patterns for collaborative and chat applications
• Server-Sent Events (SSE) implementation for LLM response streaming
• Performance optimization including data compression and keep-alive heartbeats

Use Cases

• Streaming ChatGPT-style AI responses in real-time interfaces
• Building live financial data feeds and real-time analytics dashboards
• Creating collaborative editing tools and multi-user chat applications