https://github.com/ritwickdey/vscode-live-server-plus-plus
VsCode Live Server++ : It's Truly Live 😊 (BETA) -- [NOT RELEASED YET]
https://github.com/ritwickdey/vscode-live-server-plus-plus
live-reload live-server vscode-extension
Last synced: 18 days ago
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VsCode Live Server++ : It's Truly Live 😊 (BETA) -- [NOT RELEASED YET]
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ritwickdey/vscode-live-server-plus-plus
- Owner: ritwickdey
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-04-09T10:11:42.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-18T12:11:06.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-03T23:10:02.146Z (27 days ago)
- Topics: live-reload, live-server, vscode-extension
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 662 KB
- Stars: 581
- Watchers: 62
- Forks: 421
- Open Issues: 67
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
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Vscode Live Server++ (BETA)
It's Truly Live
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## Features
- **No Need to save HTML, CSS, JS** :smile:
- **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
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## 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.
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## 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.
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## Settings
[Click here to read settings Docs](./docs/settings.md).
## 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)
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## Changelog
To check full changelog [click here](CHANGELOG.md).
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## 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](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/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).
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## LICENSE
This extension is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE)