How to livereload on a local server?

Question

Recently I saw a lot of information about Gulp.js for front-end development. And I want to use some of its functions like livereload while developing the front end of a java application. But I can’t find information about running Gulp together with another external local server that has database communication.

Someone knows if it is possible, and what is the best way to make Gulp.js work with applications like this?

Answer 1

I’m not sure I understand the question but Voce can use the Browser Sync plugin to create the local server that will serve your front-end files with livereload support.

To install:

https://www.browsersync.io/

npm install browser-sync --save

Configuring in the Gulp:

https://www.browsersync.io/docs/gulp/

var gulp        = require('gulp');
var browserSync = require('browser-sync').create();

// Static server
gulp.task('browser-sync', function() {
    browserSync.init({
        server: {
            baseDir: "./"
        }
    });
});

To run Gulp together with your application, a path is to configure your IDE, in the project settings I believe it is possible to perform a bash command that will initialize Gulp and its tasks.