What is LiveReload?
LiveReload monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.
LiveReload is a tool in the Live Reloading category of a tech stack.
LiveReload is an open source tool with 1.4K GitHub stars and 167 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to LiveReload's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses LiveReload?
Companies
14 companies reportedly use LiveReload in their tech stacks, including mifos, Startaê, and Listium.
Developers
126 developers on StackShare have stated that they use LiveReload.
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LiveReload Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to LiveReload?
BrowserSync
BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.
nodemon
It is an open source utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and automatically restart your server. It has a default support for node & coffeescript, but easy to run any executable (such as python, make, etc).
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
