quick-dev v1.0.4

quick-dev

This tool accelerates your development process. It detects changes to your source files, rebuilds your project and reloads any browser currently viewing your page.

Installation

quick-dev can be installed from the public npm registry.

For quick or temporary solutions, I recommend installing quick-dev globally:

npm install -g quick-dev@latest

A more permanent solution is to make quick-dev a development dependency of your package:

npm install --save-dev quick-dev@latest

Usage

Commandline Interface

Prefer using the node.js api instead.

Usage: qdev [options]

Node.js API

It's pretty basic, the following example should demonstrate all there is to know. For details refer to the source code.

const { DevServer } = require("quick-dev");

const dev = new DevServer({
	root: "public/",            // files will be served from this directory
	port: 8080,                 // listen on this port
	host: "127.0.0.1",          // bind to this address
	watch: [ "public/", "src/" ], // watch these directories for changes

	build() {
		// call this function before reloading the browsers
		console.log("building sources ...");
	}
});

dev.start();

Credits

This project was originally based upon tapio's live-server package. The code, however, has changed drastically since then.

License

This project is licenced under the MIT license.