Live Reload Sublime, Chrome, Anything - Fast and easy with Live-Server
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when asking how to get pages to refresh automatically on save, since it shows live-server working with Sublime Text and Chrome.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2015 to 2016.
What it is
A 1m39s screencast from LearnCode.academy showing how to install and run the npm live-server tool. Typing live-server in any folder starts a local Node.js server with live reload and opens the folder or its index.html in the browser.
What people said
Cites dagi12 · 2015-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Auto refresh wepage when source file changed”
I have been learning web development for some time and I have noticed on tutorials on youtube that when someone change source file (html, css, js) the webpage opened in browser is automatically refreshing. I have read something about live-reload but it's too complicated for me and there is no step by step tutorial. I have found some similar questions, but the case is that refreshing happens by side of local server not the code editor or browser as is mentioned in questions that I found. I'm using Apache as my local server. Sublime Text for writing a code and Ubuntu operating system. Here is the video that shows what I am exactly trying to say. [this video] Npm and live-server doesn't work on my c
Cites Calvljh · 2015-04 · Stack Overflow · on “How do I get github's live-server to reload my pages automatically?”
newbie here. Initially I had trouble installing live server as seen in [this video] . Took me a while to search and figure out the problem. I had to install node.js, followed by using: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin Then I had trouble with the npm install -g , kept getting these errors. Turns out I had to use 'sudo' in front. So that worked and it installed. Now, whenever I get into the terminal, get into my folder and type live-server , a new http:// 127.0.0.1:8080/ page will appear. I seem to be able to see what is the current progress, but it won't auto refresh whenever I make any changes. I'm not sure if it's because I've installed it incorrectly or if it's because of a s
Cites Valentine Shi · 2016-10 · Stack Overflow · on “livereload fired but does not reload page when changes are generated by contrib-copy or tinyimg in destination (!)”
At last I found npm live-server ( [this video] ), [LINK] and it worked just within minutes. I left grunt to manage only watch my source to run compile/copy/concat etc. And I let live-server watch changes in destination and reload the page. No configs for it. Magic :)