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 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-12-10T17:03:59.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-04T01:08:49.990Z (8 months ago)
- Language: HTML
- Homepage:
- Size: 9.77 KB
- Stars: 9
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
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.