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reserver

v1.1.2

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A tiny dev server that rebuilds your static web app

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Keywords

devserverdebugbrowserifyless

Readme

reserver

A tiny dev server that rebuilds your static, single-page app when you refresh your browser.

Why not Grunt/Gulp/etc

  • I don't like writing config files
  • I don't like installing plugins that wrap existing modules (eg gulp-browserify)
  • I don't want live-reload refreshing my browser in the background
  • I don't want temporary build/debug files to hang around in my server /www directory
  • I want compilation errors displayed in the browser
  • I want my CSS compiled from LESS or Stylus and Autoprefixed
  • I want my JavaScript or CoffeeScript browserified
  • I want my app's console.log output to show up in the terminal
  • I want parallel builds in under 100ms

Conventions

Reserver is a built-tool-by-convention. Instead of writing config files, it expects your app to have the following structure:

/html/index.ext -> compiled to /index.html
/js/index.ext   -> compiled to /index.js
/css/index.ext  -> compiled to /index.css

Inside each directory there needs to be a file called index with it's appropriate extension. Based on the extension, reserver will compile the index file as necessary. For example if you have /css/index.less then less will be used to compile your CSS.

Supported extensions are:

index.less   -> compiled with Less CSS
index.styl   -> compiled with Stylus
index.ejs    -> compiled with EJS
index.jade   -> compiled with Jade
index.hb     -> compiled with Handlebars
index.coffee -> compiled with coffeeify
index.js     -> compiled with browserify

Your index.html should include the compiled JS & CSS as follows:

<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
  <script type="text/javascript" src="index.js"></script>
</head>

Usage

Install:

$ sudo npm install -g browserify
$ sudo npm install -g reserver

Run reserver on port 8080 looking for html/js/css folders in src and serving static files from www:

$ reserver ./src ./www --port 8080

Open up your browser and visit localhost:8080. Change files in /src, refresh your browser and your app gets re-compiled in the background.

Requirements

The build system requires that any necessary build modules are installed globally or locally to node_modules.

For example if you're using LESS CSS, make sure you've installed the module globally on your machine.

For node to find your global modules, make sure NODE_PATH is set correctly:

$ export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules

To Do

  • Add support for Type-Script