Getting "live reload" for anything via AutoIt

[YellowAfterlife]

I've just added a new blog post on getting a toolset & browser independent "live reload" done easily.

If you don't know what "live reload" is (and you should! It's useful), here's a GIF:

Basically it's the process of having your game/app reload itself in browser automatically whenever you compile/save the source. It can be used to assist debugging, especially parts that require series of small changes or value tweaks.

Setting this up is easy for any toolset that provides a single JS file on output (if you are working with multiple files, you'll need to expand the code a bit). In animation above a Haxe/JS project is used.

Personally I prefer this method over normal IDE-driven one, since it does not open an extra browser tab on every launch, and does not require switching to browser window at all (which can be especially useful if you are debugging a non-interactive fragment of application to make it "look right").

Hopefully, this was useful.

[benny!]

Thanks for your tutorial. 

 

An alternative I guess a lot of people (esp. javascripters) use here, might be grunt.js in combination with the watch and reload task.