Live Reloading

callumbee

I am not sure if this is something that would be done via Indigo but the ability for it to detect changes and reload the browser. Im sure it would be some kind of JS injection or something that's done. Unless theres other ideas on how to go about it. I use PHP/ Apache.

Indigo

Hey @callumbee — thanks for your patience on a response.

Are you using a front-end framework?

On a personal level, I've come across numerous mechanisms for achieving live browser reloads over the years, and my current front-end workflow is based around Vite which has a very sophisticated live reloading system ("hot module reloading").

That said, I hate front-end build tools—I'd rather write pure JS & CSS, and think one day we'll move away from build tools—but for now I think such features are best supplied by whatever is the currently favoured front-end solution. Anything I could add to Indigo would be a bit too trivial by comparison, I think.

Anyone else have suggestions on this front?

callumbee

Indigo I am a sucker for old school so no frameworks. I have looked at Vite etc but seems more than what I would need and yet another thing to deal with haha. Need to do some thinking on how it possibly could work without a frontend framework. I know Codeigniter for example when you enable the dev toolbar it does automatic reloading but that's no use if you don't use it.