Live Update

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Live Update
Type of Code: 
Module
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Scalable Drupal API for Updating Content with Asynchronous HTTP Requests

Live Update is a module that provides a flexible and scalable framework to provide up to date in content to users without requiring page reloads. Live Update uses JQuery to poll lightweight text files that tell the users' browser if new content is available. If so, JQuery then makes another call to get the updated content stored as static HTML.