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What are the differences, advantages or disadvantages compared to livereload (guard-livereload)? I don't have a full grip on how that works to compare. It's certainly a much better way to work, f5-less

Re: F5less (web) development - let ctrl-s do more for you in an agnostic way

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Post by sky87 » Tue, Aug 21, 2012, 11:39 AM UTC

ooobo wrote: post #6

What are the differences, advantages or disadvantages compared to livereload (guard-livereload)? I don't have a full grip on how that works to compare. It's certainly a much better way to work, f5-less

f5less is cross-platform (being based on java7 fs watching feature) and cross-browser (because it uses websockets for reloading stuff). I Haven't checked livereload in a while so i don't know exactly how far they have come with the windows support, but last time i checked it wasn't quite there yet. That being said livereload probably offers more features on the live reloading side.

The strength of f5less lies, IMHO, on being essentially a command line tool: you can do anything you want when a fs notification is triggered, and in addition you can reload web content using websockets.

Another strength is that the client reloading is very flexible and extensible, being javascript you can just change the f5less.js file to do whatever you want when a file with a certain filename is changed. I just encoded the basic and probably most common behaviours.

If you want f5less is something like watchr + guard-livereload, only command line and easily extensible.