Expressive Live Editing

Different Approaches

Sublime
- Takana plugin
- Only support CSS and SCSS, not HTML
Browser
- Chrome dev workspace
- Not aware of the build process
Browser Sync
- Proxy a local web server that serves and tracks files for changes
- Compatiable with most JS build tools

Browser Sync

Install browser-sync

Install locally


npm install browser-sync

Add browser-sync to gulpfile.js


const browserSync = require('browser-sync').create();
 
gulp.task('styles', function() {
  gulp
    .src('sass/**/*.scss')
    .pipe(sass().on('error', sass.logError))
    .pipe(
      autoprefixer({
        browsers: ['last 2 versions']
      })
    )
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./css'))
    // new pipe
    .pipe(browserSync.stream());
});
 
// default default task
gulp.task('default', function() {
  // watch for sass changes and run styles task
  watch('sass/**/*.scss', gulp.series('styles'));
 
  browserSync.init({
    server: "./"
  });
});