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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 tinylrs

or npm install --save-dev tinylrs

2.Usage

step 1: inject a <script> tag into html (the tail of <body> tag)

<script src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js?snipver=1"></script>

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/index

Now,browser page will be refreshed when your watched-target-files were changed!

More-detail

1.command line

$ tinylrs --help

Usage: 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 66666

besides,you should set the same port to the <script> tag

<script src="http://localhost:66666/livereload.js?snipver=1"></script>

(3).run in your npm-scripts

1: package.json

{
  "scripts":{
    "tinylrs": "tinylrs -d './your_watch_dir/**/*.*' -p 66666"
  }
}

2: run in bash

$ npm run tinylrs

2.development

var Tinylrs = require("tinylrs");
var myTlrs = Tinylrs({
    watchList: [
        "./dist/**/*.*",
        "../public/views/*.html"
    ],
    port: 66666,
    lrfile: null
});
myTlrs.start();
// you can also use the myTlrs.server,it is a tiny-lr server instance

Questions

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 tinylrs
2.No matches found: xxxx/path/xxxx

check the directors you have type in,if use it on *unix os like linux or mac-osx