webpack-livereload-plugin
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LiveReload when running webpack --watch
Install the package
npm install --save-dev webpack-livereload-plugin
Add the plugin to your webpack config
// webpack.config.js
var LiveReloadPlugin = require('webpack-livereload-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new LiveReloadPlugin(options)
]
}
Add a script tag to your page pointed at the livereload server
<script src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js"></script>
protocol - (Default: http) Protocol for livereload <script> src attribute valueport - (Default: 35729) The desired port for the livereload serverhostname - (Default: localhost) The desired hostname for the appended
<script> (if present) to point toappendScriptTag - (Default: false) Append livereload <script>
automatically to <head>.ignore - (Default: null) RegExp of files to ignore. Null value means
ignore nothing.Yes, there's already webpack-dev-server that handles live reloading
and more complex scenarios. This project aims to solve the case where
you want assets served by your app server, but still want reloads
triggered from webpack's build pipeline.
If you set key, cert, or pfx options, they'll get passed through to
tiny-lr as options and it will
serve over HTTPS. You'll also also set protocol to https.
FAQs
Livereload for webpack
The npm package webpack-livereload-plugin receives a total of 55,602 weekly downloads. As such, webpack-livereload-plugin popularity was classified as popular.
We found that webpack-livereload-plugin demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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