zakj / refreshify

watch mode on steroids for browserify builds (live-reload and desktop notifications)

refreshify

watch mode on steroids for browserify builds

Features

Update any source file and your browserify bundle will be recompiled on the spot.

• recompiles your browserify bundle as soon as a source file changes
• notifies you via native desktop notification if your build fails

• live-reload built in

• server/protocol agnostic: No need to have a local dev server, even works when files are beign served from the local file system

Example

Use refreshify with all the same arguments as browserify except that -o is mandatory:

$ refreshify main.js -o static/bundle.js

Now as you update files, static/bundle.js will be automatically incrementally rebuilt on the fly.

You can use -v to get more verbose output to show when a file was written and how long the bundling took (in seconds):

$ refreshify browser.js -d -o static/bundle.js -v
610598 bytes written to static/bundle.js  0.23s
610606 bytes written to static/bundle.js  0.10s
610597 bytes written to static/bundle.js  0.14s
610606 bytes written to static/bundle.js  0.08s
610597 bytes written to static/bundle.js  0.08s
610597 bytes written to static/bundle.js  0.19s

To run the example included in this repo, run npm run example.

Install

With npm do:

$ npm install -g refreshify

to get the global refreshify command.

License

MIT