tinylrs(tiny-livereload-server)
- Watched files changed ==> reload browser pages
- A separate livereload server that include both static-file-server(just script) and websocket
- You don't need install the livereload browser-extension,such as chrome,or other.
- Just only npm, don't need grunt or gulp or others, don't need download file livereload.js any more
- Simple and tiny: Only 3 Dependencies: tinylr , gaze, minimist
- Cross platform Windows, *nix(Mac-OSX or Linux).
1.Installation
$ npm install -g tinylrsor npm install --save-dev tinylrs
2.Usage
step 1: inject a <script> tag into html (the tail of <body> tag)
Just only inject the code.And you don't need download the file(livereload.js)!
step 2: start tinylrs
run in bash directly (need install it globally first)
$ cd %your_project_dir%$ tinylrs './your_watch_dir/**/*.*'Maybe you should add char '' to include the target dir if you use it in osx(mac) or other unix like.
step 3: visit the web site by your own server
eg: http://localhost:8080/indexNow,browser page will be refreshed when your watched-target-files were changed!
More-detail
1.command line
$ tinylrs --helpUsage: tinylrs [options] eg: tinylrs './dist/**/*.*' tinylrs './dist/**/*.js,./dist/**/*.css,../../views/**/*.html' tinylrs -d './dist/**/*.js,./dist/**/*.css' -p 35279 tinylrs --dirs='./dist/**/*.js,./dist/**/*.css' --port=35279 Options: -h,--help show usage information -V,--version show current version information -d,--dirs<folder> *necessary!!* The director of watch targets files, both path-array and single-path -p,--port<integer> unnecessary! The server port,both websocket-server and static-file-server,default 35279 -l,--lrfile<file> unnecessary! The filepath of 'livereload.js', default a build-in-file(1).param support the array,just like this: (array ele split by char ',')
$ tinylrs './watch_dir_0/**/*.js,./watch_dir_1/**/*.css,./watch_dir_2/**/*.html'(2).You can also set the server port by runtime args:*
$ tinylrs -d './your_watch_dir/**/*.*' -p 66666besides,you should set the same port to the <script> tag
(3).run in your npm-scripts
1: package.json
2: run in bash
$ npm run tinylrs2.development
var Tinylrs = ;var myTlrs = ;myTlrsstart;// you can also use the myTlrs.server,it is a tiny-lr server instanceQuestions
1.Install failed: You maybe include 'sudo' in front of command line,if use it on *unix os like linux or mac-osx
sudo npm i -g tinylrs2.No matches found: xxxx/path/xxxx
check the directors you have type in,if use it on *unix os like linux or mac-osx