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https://github.com/milankinen/livereactload
Live code editing with Browserify and React
https://github.com/milankinen/livereactload
browserify hmr live-coding livereload react
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Live code editing with Browserify and React
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/milankinen/livereactload
- Owner: milankinen
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-03-26T13:42:05.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-10-09T11:20:15.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-18T20:08:14.751Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: browserify, hmr, live-coding, livereload, react
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 30.8 MB
- Stars: 865
- Watchers: 11
- Forks: 61
- Open Issues: 13
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# LiveReactload
Live code editing with Browserify and React.
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**ATTENTION! The upcoming 4.x version will be using the new [`react-hot-loader`](https://github.com/gaearon/react-hot-loader)
and it is already available in npm as a beta tag. If you want to test it, check out the migration guide and
installation instructions [here](https://github.com/milankinen/livereactload/tree/4.x)!**
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[](https://gitter.im/milankinen/livereactload)
[](http://badge.fury.io/js/livereactload)
[](https://travis-ci.org/milankinen/livereactload)
## Motivation
Hot reloading is de facto in today's front-end scene but unfortunately
there isn't any decent implementation for Browserify yet. This is shame because
(in my opinion) Browserify is the best bundling tool at the moment.
Hence the goal of this project is to bring the hot reloading functionality
to Browserify by honoring its principles: simplicity and modularity.
## How it works?
LiveReactload can be used as a normal Browserify plugin. When applied to the bundle,
it modifies the Browserify bundling pipeline so that the created bundle becomes
"hot-reloadable".
* LiveReactload starts the reloading server which watches the bundle changes
and sends the changed contents to the browser via WebSocket.
* When the changes arrive to the browser, LiveReactload client (included automatically
in the bundle) analyzes the changes and reloads the changed modules
Starting from version `2.0.0` LiveReactload utilizes [Dan Abramov](https://github.com/gaearon)'s
[babel-plugin-react-transform](https://github.com/gaearon/babel-plugin-react-transform) and
[react-proxy](https://github.com/gaearon/react-proxy), which means that hot-reloading
capabilities are same as in Webpack.
And because one photo tells more than a thousand words, watch [this video](https://vimeo.com/123513496) to see
LiveReactload in action.
### Other implementations
If you are a Webpack user, you probably want to check
**[react-transform-boilerplate](https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate)**.
If you want to stick with browserify, but use the Hot Module Reloading API (like webpack), you could use: **[browserify-hmr](https://github.com/AgentME/browserify-hmr)**, **[babel-plugin-react-transform](https://github.com/gaearon/babel-plugin-react-transform)** and
**[react-transform-hmr](https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-hmr)**
## Usage
### Pre-requirements
LiveReactload requires `watchify`, `babelify` and `react >= 0.13.x` in order to
work.
### Installation (Babel 6.x)
Install pre-requirements (if not already exist)
```sh
npm i --save react
npm i --save-dev watchify
```
Install `babelify` and its dependencies
```sh
npm i --save babelify babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-react
```
Install React proxying components and LiveReactload
```sh
npm i --save-dev livereactload [email protected] babel-plugin-react-transform
```
Create `.babelrc` file into project's root directory (or add `react-transform` extra
if the file already exists). More information about `.babelrc` format and options
can be found from [babel-plugin-react-transform](https://github.com/gaearon/babel-plugin-react-transform).
```javascript
{
"presets": ["es2015", "react"],
"env": {
"development": {
"plugins": [
["react-transform", {
"transforms": [{
"transform": "livereactload/babel-transform",
"imports": ["react"]
}]
}]
]
}
}
}
```
And finally use LiveReactload as a Browserify plugin with `watchify`. For example:
```bash
node_modules/.bin/watchify site.js -t babelify -p livereactload -o static/bundle.js
```
**That's it!** Now just start (live) coding! For more detailed example, please see
**[the basic usage example](examples/01-basic-usage)**.
### Reacting to reload events
Ideally your client code should be completely unaware of the reloading. However,
some libraries like `redux` require a little hack for hot-reloading. That's why
LiveReactload provides `module.onReload(..)` hook.
By using this hook, you can add your own custom functionality that is
executed in the browser only when the module reload occurs:
```javascript
if (module.onReload) {
module.onReload(() => {
... do something ...
// returning true indicates that this module was updated correctly and
// reloading should not propagate to the parent components (if non-true
// value is returned, then parent module gets reloaded too)
return true
});
}
```
For more details, please see **[the redux example](examples/02-redux)**.
### How about build systems?
LiveReactload is build system agnostic. It means that you can use LiveReactload with
all build systems having Browserify and Watchify support. Please see
**[build systems example](examples/03-build-systems)** for more information.
## When does it not work?
Well... if you hide your state inside the modules then the reloading will lose
the state. For example the following code will **not** work:
```javascript
// counter.js
const React = require('react')
let totalClicks = 0
export default React.createClass({
getInitialState() {
return {clickCount: totalClicks}
},
handleClick() {
totalClicks += 1
this.setState({clickCount: totalClicks})
},
render() {
return (
Increment
{this.state.clickCount}
)
}
})
```
## Configuration options
You can configure the LiveReactload Browserify plugin by passing some options
to it (`-p [ livereactload ]`, see Browserify docs for more information
about config format).
### Available options
LiveReactload supports the following configuration options
#### `--no-server`
Prevents reload server startup. If you are using LiveReactload plugin with Browserify
(instead of watchify), you may want to enable this so that the process won't hang after
bundling. This is not set by default.
#### `--port `
Starts reload server to the given port and configures the bundle's client to
connect to the server using this port. Default value is `4474`
#### `--host `
Configures the reload client to use the given hostname when connecting to the
reload server. You may need this if you are running the bundle in an another device.
Default value is `localhost`
#### `--no-dedupe`
Disables Browserify module de-duplication. By default, de-duplication is enabled.
However, sometimes this de-duplication with may cause an invalid bundle with LiveReactload.
You can disable this de-duplication by using this flag.
#### `--no-client`
Omits the reload client from the generated bundle.
#### `--ssl-cert ` and `--ssl-key `
Adds your custom SSL certificate and key to the reload web-server. This is needed if you
want to use LiveReactLoad in HTTPS site. Parameters are paths to the actual files.
#### `--no-babel`
If you use a tool other than Babel to transform React syntax, this disables the in-browser warning that would otherwise appear.
#### `--moduledir `
Directory pointing node modules where `livereactload` is installed. By default points to `/node_modules`.
## License
MIT
## Contributing
Please create a [Github issue](/../../issues) if problems occur. Pull request are also welcome
and they can be created to the `development` branch.