How do I dynamically update a feed with Flask and AJAX?

Question

I have created a system where some information is stored in a database and that information is then displayed on a webpage. This works fine but I want to add is a real time page updater that adds the new information on to the webpage without a refresh like Twitter does with new tweets.

Answer 1

You can achieve this using Server Side Events which is designed specifically for this purpose and is more efficient compared to the AJAX implementation (See this answer).