Only reload on files that are in use in the browser about live-server HOT 5 CLOSED

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from live-server.

You can use --ignore and/or the new --ignorePattern parameters to exclude stuff from file watcher.

from live-server.

That would mean I'd have to explicitly configure files/paths for every project, while I've setup my gulp project/setup to compile "whatever is there" with babel/less/etc. I've moved on from browser page reloading to hot module reloading for this reason.

from live-server.

Just for reference, there is now also --watch=PATH,PATH2 param, which can be used to specify what files to watch ignoring everything else. So possibly something like live-server --watch=build could work in your case, though individually hotloadable js modules sound much better.

from live-server.

It seems to me that these various configurable watch and ignore options are missing the point. Live-server already has all of the information it needs to know what to watch: it knows exactly what files have been fetched by the browser. Why would anyone want to explicitly configure these files instead of using this information already present?

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