Improve compilation speed for development builds (#402)

* Improve incremental build times
* Live-reloading in development mode

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/client/js/controllers/home_controller.js b/client/js/controllers/home_controller.js
index cf56e27..ea2a411 100644
--- a/client/js/controllers/home_controller.js
+++ b/client/js/controllers/home_controller.js
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class HomeController {
             buildDate: config.meta.buildDate,
             canListSnapshots: api.hasPrivilege("snapshots:list"),
             canListPosts: api.hasPrivilege("posts:list"),
+            isDevelopmentMode: config.environment == "development"
         });
 
         Info.get().then(
diff --git a/client/js/main.js b/client/js/main.js
index b943574..2be2cd5 100644
--- a/client/js/main.js
+++ b/client/js/main.js
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 "use strict";
 
+const config = require("./config.js");
+
+if (config.environment == "development") {
+    var ws = new WebSocket("ws://" + location.hostname + ":8080");
+    ws.addEventListener('open', function (event) {
+        console.log("Live-reloading websocket connected.");
+    });
+    ws.addEventListener('message', (event) => {
+        console.log(event);
+        if (event.data == 'reload'){
+            location.reload();
+        }
+    });
+}
+
 require("./util/polyfill.js");
 const misc = require("./util/misc.js");
 const views = require("./util/views.js");