olivianate / koa-liveload

liveload middleware for koa

koa-liveload

A liveload middleware for koa.

This middleware will inject a script tag for tiny-lr communication into html response, and watch the resource files, when any resource file get changed the browser will be notified to reload, css file changes would not cause a page refresh.

note, this middleware is disabled on test nad production environment.

Added folder and file will be watched for changes automatically.

Install

$ npm install koa-liveload

Example

var koa = require('koa');
var liveload = require('koa-liveload');
var koa_static = require('koa-static');

var app = koa();
app.use(liveload(__dirname, {
  includes: ['jade'],
  excludes: ['components']
}))
app.use(koa_static(__driname));

app.listen(3000);

API

function liveload(directory, [options]);

Options

• port port for tiny-lr server [35927]
• ignoreHidden ignore dot files [true]
• includes include file extensions other than js, css, html
• excludes exclude folder names other than node_modules

License

MIT