How to do a Realtime Basketball Boxscore Widge Properly?

I have created a basketball stats tracker . Now I wanted to create a widget so that sports site can embed my boxscore widget to their site. My plan is add a job in my app that push the game boxscore json to a cloud server every 1 minute or while game tracking is on progress. I am thinking of using rethinkdb as my boxscores database. One of my requirements is to be able to update widget data without refreshing browser. Thats why I thought of using rethinkdb with rails server sent event. Am I on right path? Is there a tutorial or sample app using rethinkdb and SSE? Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks.

Consider using websockets, it would allow you to feed the refreshed data immediately, not wait for a minute potentially, which is kinda long when you're talking about real-time.

Read more here if your app is Rails: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_cable_overview.html

Hi thanks for the response. I dont need bidirectional communication thats why I thought of SSE

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This sounds like a solid plan! Using RethinkDB with SSE for real-time updates is a great approach. Consider exploring server-sent events in conjunction with a caching layer to optimize performance. Just like strategically placing blocks in Block Blast game, caching balances data retrieval and minimizes server load.

Using RethinkDB changefeeds with Rails + Server-Sent Events is a solid approach for keeping your widget data live without requiring browser refreshes—perfect for a fast-moving boxscore. While there aren’t many Rails-specific tutorials pairing RethinkDB + SSE, you can adapt examples of RethinkDB changefeeds with Node/Express pretty easily, since the concept is the same: listen to DB changes → push them via SSE.

Sounds like a solid plan! Real-time updates with RethinkDB and SSE are a great fit for a live boxscore widget. I wonder, could you optimize the data pushed to the cloud server, maybe like used to, squeezing the most juice with least amount? Look into websockets as a lighter alternative to SSE. Tutorials on RethinkDB + Node.js + SSE might be easier to find and adaptable to Rails.