bangnokia/laravel-serve-livereload

Bring livereload to laravel artisan serve command

1.1.5 2023-01-03 02:24 UTC

Requires

• cboden/ratchet: ^0.4
• illuminate/console: ^6.0|^7.0|^8
• symfony/process: ^4.4|^5.0
• yosymfony/resource-watcher: ^2.0

Requires (Dev)

• orchestra/testbench: ^5.0

MIT

• bangnokia

README

This package is daed, please use the new Vite integrated instead

This package integrates into default artisan serve command an WebSockets server for live reloading the application when any file changed. How it works, checkout my blog post for explaination if you don't like digging into source code.

Installation

For laravel 8, please use version ^1.x, and below use version 0.x

composer require bangnokia/laravel-serve-livereload --dev

Usage

Open terminal and run php artisan serve

This package works even when you use custom vhost such as valet or laragon

Configuration

By default, this package looking for files changes in these directories:

/app
/public 
/config 
/routes 
/resources

If you want to customize the watched forlders, you can publish the configuration file by this commmand:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="BangNokia\ServeLiveReload\CommandServiceProvider"

and then you can config what you want in the config/serve_livereload.php.