Browserify React Live

This is a browserify transform which works similarly to react-hot-loader.
Once you run you app in the browser, it monitors your JavaScript code and only updates the changed component, preserving the state of the application.

Installing

``bash
npm install browserify-react-live --save-dev
`

Quick example

`bash
git clone https://github.com/Kureev/browserify-react-live.git
cd browserify-react-live/examples/01\ -\ Basic
npm i && npm start
`

Run http://localhost:8080 and try updating the component.

Running

Add transform to package.json:
`json
"browserify": {
"transform": [
"browserify-react-live"
]
}
`
or run watchify with transform from the CLI:
`bash
watchify -t browserify-react-live components/file.js -o bundles/file.js
`

Start browserify-patch-server:
`bash
node_modules/.bin/browserify-patch-server components/*
`




Configuration

$3

- Server
`bash
node_modules/.bin/browserify-patch-server components/* -p 8888 # Default is 8081
`

- Transform
`bash
watchify -t [ browserify-react-live -p 8888 ] components/file.js -o bundles/file.js # Default is 8080
`

How it works


browserify-react-live works with browserify-patch-server:
- browserify-patch-server
This part is responsible for watching changes for specified path and compute/broadcast patch. Every time watched files changes, it automatically calculate patch and send it via websocket to client.
- browserify-react-live transform. Patch browserify's require function to inject Dan Abramov's react-hot-api and websocket client which will wait for server broadcast and apply received patch.

Migration 1.x -> 2.x

- Now you need to watch files instead of bundle. E.g. components/* instead of dist/bundle.js

Compatibility

- node > 0.10 or io.js` > 2.0

License

MIT