Can we keep track of changed resources and reload only respective browser windows? about electron-reload

[HeilTec]

The render process can load resources in several ways.
Any references made by the loaded file (index.html) like script tags or external style-sheets can be leached from the webContents events.

To detect modules loading using require('module') a global hook needs to be implemented.
Hooking the require function in the main module does not seem to affect sub-modules loading.

@dorayx Have you made any uncommitted progress?

Despite the problems, I feel this warrants looking into.

[dorayx]

Can I help with this feature ?

[yan-foto]

@dorayx sorry for the late reply! Do you have any suggestions on where to start?

[dorayx]

@yan-foto I think these events might help:

• did-finish-load
• did-get-response-details
• will-navigate

We can get the URLs of the loaded files by the event did-finish-load,
but some other files may be loaded by a request, such as the scripts and the stylesheets
I think we can fetch the URLs of those by the event did-get-response-details

Then we create a Map object to maintain every loaded resource,
an URL as the key and an array of the relative webContents objects as the value

So every time a resource is changed, we will get the resource URL via the module chokidar
and then reloadIgnoringCache the webContents objects associated with it

[yan-foto]

This sounds promising. I haven't got into the details though! Would you create a pull request please 👍 ?

[dorayx]

Yes, I've been working on it