floating-preview

floating-preview is a simple browser which shows a web page in a small window always on top and reloads automatically.

How to Install

Preparation

In order to use floating-preview, installation of Node.js is required. Node.js can be obtained from the official site.

In a proxy environment, the following settings are also needed:

• Set the proxy server with the npm config set proxy and npm config set https-proxy commands
• If on Windows, set the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables to install the electron-prebuilt module

Installing floating-preview

floating-preview can be installed with the npm command of Node.js.

$ npm -g install floating-preview

If a permission error occured while installation, please add the sudo command at the head of the above command.

How to Use

Usage

floating-preview [options] [path]

Both file and directory names can be specified as a path.

Examples

Open the index.html file in the current directory and watch the changes under the same directory to reload.

$ floating-preview

Open the index.html file in the src directory and watch the changes under it.

$ floating-preview src

Open the app.js file and watch the changes under the same directory.

$ floating-preview app.js

Open the app.js file in a window whose size is 400x300.

$ floating-preview -s 400x300 app.js

Options

-h, --help                   output usage information
-V, --version                output the version number
-p, --port <n>               the port number for the http server
-s, --size <width>x<height>  the size of the window
-m, --margin <n>             the margin of the window to the corner
-z, --zoom <n>               the zoom percentage of the content

License

floating-preview is under MIT license.