live-reload-bp v1.0.8

live-reload-bp (Live Reload Browser Page)

This module is for the browser plugin «Live Reload Browser Page» — this is the browser plugin for live reload the browser page during web development.

live-reload-browser-page.com

You may also want to use (In the Pro version of «Live Reload Browser Page», all these plugins are already built in):

• Live Alert Browser Page
• Live HTML Validator

Installs

Step - 1

You need to install the browser plugin Live Reload Browser Page, choose the version you need:

• For Google Chrome:

  • Live Reload Browser Page
  • Live Reload Browser Page (Pro)

Step - 2

npm i live-reload-bp --save-dev

How to use

Example of how to establish a connection to the plugin «Live Reload Browser Page»

const 
  LiveReload = require("live-reload-bp");

const  
  liveReload = new LiveReload({
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: '8080'
  });

// Run Server
liveReload.run();

console.log('Within 10 seconds, you need to connect to this server using the browser plugin «Live Reload Browser Page».');

setTimeout(function(){
  // Full reload of the browser page
  liveReload.reloadPage();
}, 10000);

Examples:

• NodeJs (To better understand how to use this tool, it is recommended that you Get Started.)
• Gulp
• Webpack
• Grunt

API

Instance options

const liveReload = new LiveReload({options});

options.host

• Type: String
• Default value: 127.0.0.1

options.port

• Type: String|Integer
• Default value: 8080

options.debug

• Type: boolean
• Default value: false

Prints additional data to the console

options.ssl

• Type: ObjectJSON
• Default value: undefined

To connect via SSL connection.

options ssl

ssl: { 
  enable: true,
    options: { 
      key: './ssl/my.key',
      cert: './ssl/my.crt'  
  }               
}

Methods

liveReload.run()

Running the server

liveReload.liveAlert(message)

Call the alert panel on a web page.

* The method in live-alert-bp has other name.

message must be in the format (you can also look at Browser plugin Live Alert Browser Page API):

[
  { label: 'My label-1', message: 'My message-1.'}
]

or

[
  {
    label: {
      style: { 
        backgroundColor: '#ff0000', 
        color: '#ffffff' 
      }, 
      name: 'Error'             
    },
    message: 'My message...'
  }
]

liveReload.resetError()

Reset errors

liveReload.hasError()

Check errors

Browser plugin API

API of browser plugin Live Reload Browser Page