Live reload feature

[Tazeg]

Is there a way to watch the path and to reload the web page when a file is changed ?
This would be great as a dev web server.
When for example the bundle.js is changed, the web page should reload.
Thanks.

[ehsandeep]

@Tazeg it should be already working in that way by design, are you sure if it's not working? browser refresh will reflect the new changes.

[Tazeg]

Yes, refreshing the browser manually renders the new files.
But I would like an automatic reload when a modification occurs on a file in the path.
For example. I have index.html. I start the server : simplehttpserver. I open index.html with my editor. I save the file. Then here, the browser should reload the page automatically. This is not the case actually.
If it can help, I know that hugo or JS bundlers inject a script code for this. But I don't know exactly how this hack works.

[Tazeg]

I found the term : HMR (Hot Module Reload). Usefull for developpers. But it may be out of the scope of simplehttpserver.

[Mzack9999]

@Tazeg this should be possible when #41 will be implemented via header/meta/javascript injection

[ehsandeep]

Closing as this will be handled in the linked issue.