@scottalanmiller Sure! My minecraft plugin does this. Using the action:widgets.loaded hook for loading the initial data and appending it via jQuery using the data-widget selector, then I update the data using websockets and/or a setTimeout with an ajax call.

so just in case it might be related, I would like to update our situation... After 1.12.2 upgrade, we had "restart required" problem because of poll plugin, you can see the post above... But, currently we are using updated 0.3.3 version of the poll plugin and forum works fine and "restart required" error is also gone... https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll#readme