Reviews for Live Reload — monitor and reload html, css, js
Live Reload — monitor and reload html, css, js by Blaise Kal
Review by Firefox user 14545622
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 14545622, 6 years ago26 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18020911, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13279233, 2 years agoThis is wonderful extension to make developer's life easier, saves you from zillion refreshes
- Rated 5 out of 5by jokenngo, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sam, 2 years agoPretty much an "must have" for anybody doing dev work on a static site.
It's HTTP server agnostic so you're not tied to a vendor or a full-fledged framework with a built-in dev server.
It works exceptionally well and takes practically no RTFM to get up and running.
The only thing to keep in mind is that this extension only knows the information being passed to it by your web server. Having it able to reload on a change to a file at '/tmp/watcher' still requires a configuration to expose that file to the browser itself. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jalkhov, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, 4 years agoFinally one that works,
using with XAMPP to live update my php files - Rated 5 out of 5by bitelse, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by ninjadeveloper, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15652828, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sourav Goswami, 5 years agoIt's not working.
The horrible thing is that it requires "Access your data for all websites" permission. I am not sure why it needs to access my data like email, usernames and passwords everywhere? - Rated 5 out of 5by JDG, 5 years agoI'm using this extension with MAMP as the server for local development and it's working like a charm. Too bad it requires a server, but what can you do?
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14493181, 6 years agoThe most basic functionality doesn't work anymore. I added the exact domain and pointer to the exact one file to watch. I opened the file in another tab and could see that it changed, but the extension did not reload the page.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoPossibly what went wrong is that Source File URLs have to be included on the host page in order to be considered to be monitored. - Rated 5 out of 5by arnofly, 6 years agoThis extension is amazing! It'a a must have for each web developper. It do perfectly the job on local files if you use a local server as Wampserver for example, instead of open each file with your browser.
But nothing is perfect ;)
I would like an option that let's the user add exceptions, because I found a limitation. It's quite look like a bug, but it's not. I explain that I want to say. In my realod rules every files of my project are monitored. This setting is fast and do the job perfectly. But in a contact page of my project, I put a homemade Captcha with 2 numbers that change each time the page is loaded, so the code is different each time and Live Reload reloads this page infinitely...
So please, add this option ;) Thank you for your job! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14217107, 6 years agoMy new favorite addon as a web dev. Thank you.
I couldn't use the HMR for CSS with Encore (wrap for Webpack). It solved my problem and I don't need fastidious conditions according to my environment anymore, and don't need to emulate those assets via a proxy.
Now a simple "watch" task from Webpack is enough and keep my config clean. I wish I heard of this addon sooner <3 - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13999473, 7 years agoSadly it does not work for local files due to adonrestricitons
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13949423, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by AlexSus, 7 years agoNice addon! Please, add other extensions for checking. For example i need to track changes in local .tpl and .php files.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoLocal files cannot be monitored due to security restrictions in web extensions, enforced by Firefox.
In your case, I guess .tpl and .php files are used to render a page that's served on http://localhost? Can you use localhost URLs to set up a reload rule?
Note that in Live Reload, a Host can monitor itself. Example:
Host URL: http://localhost/some/path/*
Source file URLs: http://localhost/some/path/* - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13701488, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13698959, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13661756, 7 years agoThanks for providing a Livereload that just works!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13636709, 7 years agoWorks well so far. Set the rule to http://localhost/ and track changes also to http://localhost/
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13584691, 7 years agoPlugin did not work for me. (Updating review for developer notes)
Notes for developer: Windows 10 Pro, v1703. Firefox 57.0.2 64-bit. Installed add-ons: Adblock Plus, Greasemonkey, LastPass, uBlock (not sure why I have two Adblockers installed, but whatever) Web Developer, Plugins: OpenH264 Video Codec, Widevine Content Decryption, Shockwave Flash. Steps to recreate: Installed add-on, enabled and disabled auto reload a few times to get it to work (did not work on first install), completely closed and restarted browser, repeated steps of cycling the auto reload toggle, tried going into advanced options to see if there was a missing setting and there didn't appear to be one. This was tested on a local file. File was saved using JetBrains Webstorm (not that it should matter, but it may be worth noting). I was NOT using the Webstorm web server. Again, this was accessing the HTML file as a local file directly through the browser.Developer response
posted 7 years agoCan you give me steps to reproduce so I can verify what went wrong?
Edit: Thanks for your update, will look into this.
Edit 2: This issue should be fixed in version 1.2.3. Can you please confirm?