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What's wrong with Caddy [0]? [0] https://caddyserver.com/
The issue with these systems is that they lie in between something like Python's SimpleHTTPServer and a complete frontend development tool like Grunt or Gulp. They're great for small projects, but have trouble scaling up.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
I wrote something similar, called Slinky [0], which also transparently compiles various compiled web langauges (SASS, HAML, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.). The issue with these systems is that they lie in between something like Python's SimpleHTTPServer and a complete frontend development tool like Grunt or Gulp. They're great for small projects, but have trouble scaling up. [0] https://github.com/mwylde/slinky
Devd has a simple job: it just serves files and triggers livereload when files change, and is completely agnostic about the build process. That means it works very well as a complement to Gulp - in fact, this is one of my primary use cases for devd. My gulp setups are simpler now: I've ditched Connect and node livereload libraries, and instead gulp JUST renders files to disk. It's early days, but having two sharp tools each doing what they do best seems to work well.
I should add that I definitely don't think there's one "right way" to do this stuff. I love the fact that we're free to explore variations to see what works and what doesn't. The more things we try the merrier!
In my experience I would take this listing as a grain of salt. Maybe that's what you get on a decent business connection, but a home or mobile connection is likely going to have a much higher latency. It also doesn't take into account where your servers are - latency from Europe to West US on a good connection is 200ms+.
[0] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-pr...
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Can customize the directory.
What's wrong with Caddy [0]? [0] https://caddyserver.com/
No support for livereload.