browser-sync
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Keep multiple browsers & devices in sync when building websites.
Follow @Browsersync on twitter for news & updates.
Please visit browsersync.io for a full run-down of features
Browsersync works by injecting an asynchronous script tag (<script async>...</script>) right after the <body> tag
during initial request. In order for this to work properly the <body> tag must be present. Alternatively you
can provide a custom rule for the snippet using snippetOptions
Providing you haven't accessed any internal properties, everything will just work as there are no breaking changes to the public API. Internally however, we now use an immutable data structure for storing/retrieving options. So whereas before you could access urls like this...
browserSync({server: true}, function(err, bs) {
console.log(bs.options.urls.local);
});
... you now access them in the following way:
browserSync({server: true}, function(err, bs) {
console.log(bs.options.getIn(["urls", "local"]));
});
If you've found Browser-sync useful and would like to contribute to its continued development & support, please feel free to send a donation of any size - it would be greatly appreciated!
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FAQs
Live CSS Reload & Browser Syncing
The npm package browser-sync receives a total of 464,139 weekly downloads. As such, browser-sync popularity was classified as popular.
We found that browser-sync demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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