How To Loadtest Server Sent Events

I have a node service that streams data via SSE (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sse-channel). I would like to loadtest this service my making 'n' concurrent connections, i tried the

Solution 1:

Gatling (http://gatling.io/#/) has support for SSE (http://gatling.io/docs/2.2.2/http/sse.html). It's not in js, it's Scala. But, it's quite simple to write a scenario that targets a SSE server.