Vertx-livereload

A very simple helper to have a livereload server on a vertx application for your static resources.

Motivation

Refresh a web page can be so long :), so just save your js/css/html file and when you arrived in you browser the change is already there.

Implementation

All samples are in kotlin, but it's very simple, so the conversion to java must be easy.

Image you avec some static resources :

get("/public/*").handler(
    StaticHandler.create("src/main/resources/public")
        .setCachingEnabled(false)
)

this is just the dev example, in real life you may have something like that :

if (getMode() == "dev") {
    get("/public/*").handler(
        StaticHandler.create("src/main/resources/public")
            .setCachingEnabled(false)    
    )
} else {
    get("/public/*").handler(StaticHandler.create("public"))
} 

Why not just the "prod mode" code? Because I don't want to wait the compile process to have my update :)

So, as you guess, I have some static files in src/main/resources/public which are served for url /public/* Now to add my livereload, I just add this code to my verticle :

import fr.ybonnel.vertx.livereload.LiveReload

class MainVerticle: AbstractVerticle() {
    private lateinit var liveReloadServer: LiveReload

    override fun start(startFuture: Future<Void>) {
        /* ... */
        liveReloadServer = LiveReload(this.vertx, mapOf(
            "src/main/resources/public/" to "/public/"
        ))
        liveReloadServer?.start()?.setHandler(startFuture)
    }

    override fun stop(stopFuture: Future<Void>) {
        /* ... */
        liveReloadServer?.stop()?.setHandler(stopFuture)
    }
}

Demo

How to install

The artifact is published to bintray : bintray.com/ybonnel/maven/vertx-livereload