ritwickdey/vscode-live-server-plus-plus

Vscode Live Server++ (BETA)

It's Truly Live

Features

• No Need to save HTML, CSS, JS 😄
• No Browser full reload (for HTML & CSS)
• Customizable Server Root
• Customizable Server Port
• Customizable reloading time
• Customizable index file (e.g index.html)
• Auto Browser open (Mozila, Chrome & Edge)
• Control from statusbar

Downside

• Live Server++ will work well if your project only contents css & html and minimal JavaScript. If you do lot of DOM Manupulation with JavaScript, Live Server++ is not recommended.

How to Start/Stop Server ?

1. Open a project and click to Go Live++ from the status bar to turn the server on/off.

2. Open the Command Pallete by pressing F1 or ctrl+shift+P and type Live Server++: Open Server to start a server or type Live Server++: Close Server to stop a server.

Settings

Click here to read settings Docs.

What's new ?

• v0.0.1 (##DATE##)

  • Initial release
  • hot Reload supported
  • No need to save
  • 5 settings are added (Port, Root, indexFile, timeout, browser)

Changelog

To check full changelog click here.

Why Live Server++ when there is a Live Server ?

Actually, I was receiving a lot of emails, PR, comments (and also there was few issue request, e.g. #12080) - why auto reload only happens when we save the file? - why it's not realtime?... blah blah....

Well, in Live Server Extension, I'm using a popular npm module (named live-server) and it's the core library of Live Server. (yaa! too many "Live Server" 😜). In the way it's working - it never possible auto reload without saving the file.

And yaa, to be honest, when I made (in mid of 2017) the live server extension, I didn't know Node.js or JavaScript well (Hold on! I still don't know Node.js but I'm now confident). I even didn't know promise/callback well. I understood the callback (& callback hell too) while making the extension. And Promise? Only I knew how to use it like .then().then().then() and IIFE? or closure? - I didn't even hear about those names at that time. 😬

Okay, now coming to the point, Code of the Live Server can't be migrated with Live Server++. Live Server++ is not depended on live-server(the npm module) - I've written the server side code from scratch & it has minimal dependency (still under development).

LICENSE

This extension is licensed under the MIT License