Server-Sent Events vs. WebSockets: Architecting Low-Latency Streaming for Multi-Agent UIs

Streaming token generation from multi-agent graphs to React UIs requires handling partial tool calls, intermediate thought updates, and connection reconnects. Here is why Server-Sent Events (SSE) beats WebSockets for 95% of AI frontends.

Written and maintained by Hassan Nazir, Forward Deployed Engineer and Applied AI practitioner.