https://github.com/bhelx/live-file

node.js application to view a file in realtime over the browser
https://github.com/bhelx/live-file

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node.js application to view a file in realtime over the browser

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bhelx/live-file
• Owner: bhelx
• Archived: true
• Created: 2012-04-14T22:30:02.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-12-10T17:03:59.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-22T04:36:23.573Z (2 months ago)
• Language: HTML
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• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Live File

=========

live-file is a simple utility to allow you to watch a remote file in realtime on your browser via websockets. It's not meant to be a nice finished product it's just a hacked together tool.

Features

========

* Realtime streaming over webockets

* Infinite upward scroll simulates terminal application

* easy to install and run, few dependencies

Install and Run

===============

You can install live-file using npm. Be sure to use -g option:

```

  npm install live-file -g

```

To run, all you need to do is run the command and pass it a file:

```

  live-file --file /var/log/system.log

```

Point your browser at [http://localhost:8888](http://localhost:8888) to see the results.

You have a few extra options:

```

  live-file --file /var/log/system.log --port 3000 --backlog 10000

```

--port is the webserver port and --backlog is the number of bytes to send to the client at a time.

Browser Support

===============

I have only tested this on Firefox :/

Contributors

============

I borrowed some code from around github but I can't seem to find all the sources. I know this guy was involved:

[karmi](https://github.com/karmi)

Improvements

============

fs#watchFile seems to be kind of slow. I imagine there are better ways to do this now. I might change this soon.