Livereloading

[oliverpool]

Hi, I discovered this project via your blog, which I find really inspiring!

I developed a similar project myself, but with the main objective of supporting livereload (when I update something, the browser refreshes automatically): https://code.pfad.fr/devf/

Maybe this is something that could be beneficial to your workflow (the last remaining pain point is having a cross-platform system to get notified of file changes events. I rely on iwaitnotify since I am running Linux).

[eliben]

Thanks for the feedback and the suggestion.

Live reloading is definitely one possible feature for this server that would be useful; I'll consider it, though at this time I don't have specific plans to significantly enhance static-server beyond its current capabilities.

[wjkoh]

This can be done with Air (https://github.com/air-verse/air). The static-server already gives you the most recent version of each file. What you need is to trigger the web browser to reload via JavaScript when a file change is detected. Air provides a proxy server that injects JavaScript and watches for local file changes. Check out How to Reload the Browser Automatically on Static File Changes.

[oliverpool]

I recently added fsnotify for this reason to devf: https://codeberg.org/pfad.fr/devf/commit/0cde8e7dbef98db035d6bd4f7b40b4e3b211e1af

So if you change a local file that was read, the page will be reloaded (it is quite fresh and might be buggy).