Liver

Quick and dirty live reloading server for web development.

Documentation

See docs.rs for how to use Liver.

License

This project is licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

lib.rs:

Liver

Quick and dirty live reloading server for web development.

This library provides one function watch that does the following:

• Creates a WebSocket server (with [ws]).
• Creates a file watcher (with hotwatch) that detects file changes and sends a WebSocket message whenever one happens.
• Creates a small HTTP server (with rocket) that returns static files from the path you passed through watch. And it injects some JavaScript in any HTML files to reload the page when a WebSocket message is received.

Note: this was developed in a very quick and dirty manner, please don't use this in a production setting. It doesn't have proper error handling (unwraps everywhere) and isn't thoroughly tested. If you're interested in improving the code and stability, I very much welcome it. I think I've gotten about as far as I can with my limited Rust capabilities.

To change the ports used for Rocket or the WebSocket server, you can set their corresponding environment variables: ROCKET_PORT (8000 by default) and WS_PORT (8001 by default).