Webloader - a Sublime Text 2 plugin

Updates css/less live as you type, or reloads the page when saving js/html/php.

Uses websockets, works without a webserver, with multiple pages or files at once. You can run javascript on a page directly from Sublime, define custom actions when you edit/save/load, or add more file extensions. Nothing else to install but the plugin.

Still very much in development, but suggestions and fixes are welcome.

How to use:

• install with Package Control: ctrl-shift-p, Package Control: Install Package, Webloader
• restart Sublime, and go to the plugin's directory:
  • windows: userfolder\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\Webloader
  • os x: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Webloader
  • linux: ~/.config/sublime-text-2/Webloader
• if you have a local webserver, copy the demo directory under your webroot (if you don't, skip this)
• open demo/index.html in a browser (if no webserver, open it as file://)
• edit demo.css with Sublime, and see the changes on the page as you type
• edit index.html, add some text, save it - this should refresh the page
• if you used a webserver, try editing demo.less, it should update live too!

Used in your projects:

• in one line: install the plugin, and include webloader.js on your page (if you use .less files, add less.js too)
• webloader.js works standalone, no js framework necessary (less.js is optional; tested with less-1.3.3)
• non-localhost websites:
  • if the page is not on your machine, or sees you as a different ip than localhost/127.0.0.1/::1
  • define your ip: <script src='webloader.js?server=192.168.0.100:9000'></script>
  • and you may have to enable this port in your firewall
• check out the settings in the Packages/Webloader/Webloader.sublime-settings file:
  • server: if you want to change the above port
  • clients: if you do not trust your lan, or opened the above port to the wide internet
  • save_parsed_less: if you want to enable converting .less to .css on save
  • watch_events: if you want to add or remove file types
  • sites: if you use virthosts, symlink directories to your docroot, or similar
• you can refresh the browser from Sublime with F5 (use ctrl-shift-j to select between multiple pages)
• you can run javascript on a page directly from Sublime with ctrl-shift-j
• you can send commands to the server with ctrl-shift-c (currently only supports stop/restart/start)
• if you feel like hacking around, you can add custom actions to webloader.js (or even webloader.py):
  • the setup_commands and setup_callbacks show the default actions, feel free to customize these
  • you can mess around with the code however you like for your own purposes, but you can't distribute it

Future plans:

• more polished codebase, as I'm still changing it around daily
• simpler and easier customization and actions
• I may release under a less restrictive license later, when I feel it's ready

Contact and terms:

• Contact: http://rozsahegyi.info
• Project: https://github.com/rozsahegyi/sublime-webloader
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
• Summary: free to download/share/use, but you have to credit me, and you can't sell, alter, or bundle this.
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Credits:

• plugin code on the sublime API and standard python library
• uses less.js for compiling .less files