Server-Sent Event (SSE) Django & HTMX views.py def stream_view(request): def event_stream(): while True: rv = "" event_data = { "event": "clock", "data": f"The server time is {time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}", } for k, v in event_data.items(): rv += f"{k}: {v}\n" rv += "\n" yield rv time.sleep(1) return StreamingHttpResponse(event_stream(), content_type="text/event-stream") index.html <!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="robots" content="NONE,NOARCHIVE" /> <title>🥑</title> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/htmx.org@2.0.8/dist/htmx.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/htmx-ext-sse@2.2.4"></script> </head> <body> <div hx-ext="sse" sse-connect="/stream"> <div sse-swap="clock" hx-swap="innerHTML">🕑</div> </div> </body> </html>