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HyperSync exposes GET /height/sse, a Server-Sent Events endpoint that pushes the chain head as it advances. It was undocumented for EVM -- /height/sse appeared only on the Solana pages, and GET /height only incidentally inside a bash snippet.

Adds a section to the Getting Started page covering what SSE is, the endpoint and wire format, curl/Node/Rust clients, and the reconnection and fallback behaviour needed to run it in production.

Explicitly disambiguates SSE from "streaming", which elsewhere in these docs means the client-side parallel fetch engine.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for tracking realtime chain-head updates through Server-Sent Events.
    • Documented message formats, keepalive behavior, reconnection handling, and error scenarios.
    • Included TypeScript examples and a Rust client alternative.
    • Updated page descriptions and next steps to highlight realtime chain-head following.

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The HyperSync usage guide now documents realtime chain-head tracking through the authenticated /height/sse Server-Sent Events endpoint. It includes protocol details, reconnect behavior, TypeScript and Rust examples, error handling, and navigation updates.

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Realtime chain-head documentation

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Chain-head SSE guide
docs/HyperSync/hypersync-usage.md
The guide documents authenticated SSE subscriptions, event formats, liveness pings, reconnect handling, a TypeScript EventSource example, error reporting, and a Rust client alternative. The page description and Next Steps list link to realtime chain-head tracking.

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The documentation currently includes a curl example that fails without authentication, a JavaScript example that could expose API credentials if used in a browser, and incomplete guidance for recovering from terminal SSE failures. Users may be unable to connect, leak tokens, or stop receiving updates, so these issues should be corrected before merge.

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In `@docs/HyperSync/hypersync-usage.md`:
- Around line 391-393: Expand the SSE error-handling guidance around es.onerror
to describe recovery after terminal authentication or endpoint failures: stop
the failed SSE attempt, poll authenticated GET /height using bounded backoff,
and resume the SSE connection once the endpoint is available.
- Line 360: Update the curl example for the /height/sse endpoint to include the
required Authorization Bearer header, while preserving the existing SSE
no-buffering option and endpoint.
- Around line 362-380: Update the TypeScript EventSource example around the
EventSource initialization to clearly label it as server-side code and state
that it must run on a trusted server because ENVIO_API_TOKEN must not be
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// Without this, a bad token fails silently — you just never get an event
es.onerror = (err) => console.error("stream error:", err.code, err.message);
```

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the fallback after terminal SSE errors.

This handler only logs the error. Add guidance for authentication or endpoint failures: stop the failed SSE attempt, poll authenticated GET /height with bounded backoff, and resume SSE when available.

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In `@docs/HyperSync/hypersync-usage.md` around lines 391 - 393, Expand the SSE
error-handling guidance around es.onerror to describe recovery after terminal
authentication or endpoint failures: stop the failed SSE attempt, poll
authenticated GET /height using bounded backoff, and resume the SSE connection
once the endpoint is available.

HyperSync exposes GET /height/sse, a Server-Sent Events endpoint that
pushes the chain head as it advances. It was undocumented for EVM --
/height/sse appeared only on the Solana pages, and GET /height only
incidentally inside a bash snippet.

Adds a section to the Getting Started page covering what SSE is, the
endpoint and wire format, curl/Node/Rust clients, and the reconnection
and fallback behaviour needed to run it in production.

Explicitly disambiguates SSE from "streaming", which elsewhere in these
docs means the client-side parallel fetch engine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comment on lines +366 to +373
### JavaScript

The token has to go in the `Authorization` header — it is not accepted as a query parameter, and adding one makes the request fail. The `EventSource` built into Node and browsers can't set headers, so it can't authenticate. HyperIndex solves this with the [`eventsource`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/eventsource) package (v4+), which lets you supply your own `fetch`:

```javascript
import { EventSource } from "eventsource";

let lastHeight = 0;

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Students, we recommend Node.js client here as well. I am a little bit hesitant to show the actual event source example because there are quite many edge cases to make it properly in terms of reconnection and robustness.

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