browserify-reload is a browserify plugin that reload your client side bundle everytime it gets updated (e.g. through watchify)


Motivation
I really cannot rely on express interceptor / proxy or whatever,
browserify-reload provides the slimest overhead to reach an interactive client / server sync & reload.
It use tiny
WS server (listening on random port) and inject, through
browserify-wrap a tiny boostrap prefix on your browserify bundle so it listen for a "reload" event.
For convenience, you can also register additionnal file paths to be watched (once modified, they'll also trigger the client reload signal).
API
``
const reload = require('browserify-reload');
var b = bundle();
b.plugin(reload [, opts])
b.bundle().pipe(somewhere);
``
Options
* { deferred : false }
Do not signal the client to reload once the bundle stream ends (so you might apply additionnal, non browserify-compliant processing afterwards BEFORE notifying the client), see opts.xfiles
* { xfiles : [file_path1, file_path2 ] }
Monitor file paths and trigger client reload signal every time they are modified.
* { host : (default document.location.hostname) }
WS notification host the browser will connect to
Credits
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131
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serapath
Keywords / shout box
browserify, prefix, suffix, wrapper, plugin, browserify-plugin