etabits/live.js

Better Web Development: Edit your javascript sources without refreshing your webpage.

live.js

Better Web Development: Edit your javascript sources without refreshing your webpage.

Example

Execute

make vanilla-test

It will open an example html file in a browser window, a .coffee script file in an editor, and finally the live script that will watch for changes and push them to the browser.

• On the browser window, click the button, and it will execute the function call as specified by current code in the file.
• Now edit the file, and save.
• Changes are now pushed to the browser, click the button and check new code!

Usage

1. Add a this script tag to your html file:

<script id="live-js" data-settings='{"namespaces":"Test","pattern":"/js/.+\\.js$"}'
  src="http://127.0.0.1:1174/live.js"></script>

before the closing </body>

2. run the live binary :

./bin/live ./path/to/html/root