Hot Reloading in bookbrainz-site

endurance21 · February 21, 2020, 11:11am

i am using docker for development on bookbrainz-site , whenever i make change in css files or any other file i have to recompile all the site using ./develop.sh again and again everytime.

I think of it as lack of hot-reloading.
please correct me if i am wrong ! and suggest a way to solve this .

endurance21 · February 21, 2020, 5:43pm

i got the solution, it was there in the readme

github.com

endurance21/bookbrainz-site/blob/master/NODEJS_SETUP.md

# Running the NodeJS server outside of Docker

### These instruction are only valid for specific cases when you do not want to use Docker (`./develop.sh`) to run the server on your machine.

If for some reason you do not want to use our standard development environment (Docker), you can run the server code manually (
regardless of whether you are running dependencies (database, search,…) with Docker or you [are running them manually](./MANUAL_INSTALL.md))

## Installing NodeJS

To install NodeJS, follow the instruction for your operating system on the [official website](https://nodejs.org/en/download/)


## Installing Packages
The site depends on a number of node packages which can be installed using npm:

    cd bookbrainz-site/
    npm install

This command will also compile the site LESS and JavaScript source files.

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mr_monkey · February 22, 2020, 1:23am

Great !
Indeed there is hot reloading, using the npm run debug command (or npm run debug-watch-server to restart the server side when it changes [hot reloading is specific to the client side])

I’m glad you found it!