Quickstart

This section assumes that you have everything installed. If you do not, head over to the Installation section.

Simple Task

LiveReload is designed for more complex tasks, not just for refreshing a browser. But you can still do the simple task.

Assume you have livereload and its extension installed, and now you are in your working directory. With command:

$ livereload

your browser will reload, if any file in the working directory changed.

Working with file protocal

Enable file protocal on Chrome:

http://i.imgur.com/qGpJI.png

Guardfile

More complex tasks can be done by Guardfile. Write a Guardfile in your working directory, the basic syntax:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from livereload.task import Task

Task.add('static/style.css')
Task.add('*.html')

Now livereload will only guard static/style.css and html in your workding directory.

But python-livereload is more than that, you can specify a task before refreshing the browser:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from livereload.task import Task
from livereload.compiler import lessc

Task.add('style.less', lessc('style.less', 'style.css'))

And it will compile less css before refreshing the browser now.

Want to know about Guardfile ?

Commands like Makefile

New in Version 0.3

If you want to do some tasks in Guardfile manually:

# Guardfile

def task1():
    print('task1')

def task2():
    print('task2')

In terminal:

$ livereload task1 task2

Others

If you are on a Mac, you can buy LiveReload2.

If you are a rubist, you can get guard-livereload.

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