express-browser-reload
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✨ Node.js module to refresh your browser when your Express server restarts.
Node.js module to refresh your browser when your Express server restarts. Works by using a WebSocket to the server and waits for the WebSocket to close to detect the server restarting. Once the server comes back up, the page will be reloaded.
This project is a hard fork of reload, which is a more generalized tool with more features beyond the Express world. This fork is maintained by the Roosevelt web framework team, but it can be used independently of Roosevelt as well.
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.type('text/html')
res.send(`<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>express-browser-reload express sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>express-browser-reload express sample</p>
<!-- all you have to do is include the reload script and have it be on every page of your project -->
<!-- you do not create this route, reload creates it for you automatically -->
<script src="/express-browser-reload.js"></script>
</body>
</html>`)
})
const server = app.listen(3000, () => console.log(`🎧 express-browser-reload express sample app server is running on http://localhost:3000`))
const params = {
route: '/express-browser-reload.js',
skipDeletingConnections: false
}
require('express-browser-reload')(app, server, params)
Params API:
route: What Express route to put the client-side JS file on. Default: /express-browser-reload.js.skipDeletingConnections: Whether to skip purging HTTP connections on the Express server when it restarts. If you're already handling this on your Express server yourself, set this param to true to prevent errors.4.0.0
reload to express-browser-reload which focuses exclusively on the Express use case, as opposed to reload which is a more generalized tool with more features beyond the Express world.route.skipDeletingConnections which will skip purging HTTP connections on the Express server when it restarts. If you're already handling this on your Express server yourself, set this param to true to prevent errors.Previous updates before the hard fork of reload to express-browser-reload are below. The original project can be found at https://github.com/alallier/reload
Reload command line quality of life enhancements
.html files when only / is present in the browser. See: https://github.com/alallier/reload/pull/326A bunch of dependency updates and some project maintenance
Happy New Year!
Drop 12.x and add 18.x on CI - See: https://github.com/alallier/reload/pull/328
Update CI actions/checkout to v3 - See: https://github.com/alallier/reload/pull/318
Update CI actions/setup-node to v3 - See: https://github.com/alallier/reload/pull/319
Dependency Updates
passphrase option from https.p12.passphrase to https.passphrase so it can be used for certAndKey configurations as well - See: https://github.com/alallier/reload/pull/251.npmignore. See: https://github.com/alallier/reload/pull/209FAQs
✨ Node.js module to refresh your browser when your Express server restarts.
The npm package express-browser-reload receives a total of 154 weekly downloads. As such, express-browser-reload popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that express-browser-reload 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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