Live reloading not working on Ubuntu when there is no CSS file

[martiuh]

So I started using charge today and I really like the idea of it.
The problem is that live reloading does not work out of the box, I think the issue is with browsersync because I installed reload and set it to listen to tmp/target directory and it was working well.

Here are some stats of my computer
System:
OS: Linux 4.15 Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
CPU: (4) x64 AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
Memory: 2.58 GB / 14.64 GB
Container: Yes
Shell: 2.7.1 - /usr/bin/fish
Binaries:
Node: 8.11.4 - ~/.config/fnm/bin/node
Yarn: 1.12.3 - ~/.linuxbrew/bin/yarn
npm: 5.6.0 - ~/.config/fnm/bin/npm
Browsers:
Chrome: 73.0.3683.86
Firefox: 66.0.2

EDIT

So as soon as I added CSS I got the BrowserSync is active notification and did live reload.

[brandonweiss]

Thanks for the report!

Hmm. Yeah, that’s almost certainly an issue with brower-sync 😒 I haven’t been particularly happy with it as a library… it’s a bit difficult to use, the documentation is confusing, and it has… 423 open issues 🙀 But, it is the most popular library for live-reloading.

I hadn’t heard of reload. I’ll take a look at it and see if maybe it’s worth replacing brower-sync!

[thebergamo]

@brandonweiss I also had some problems with live reloading specially for jsx files. I also got me thinking about use parcel to bundle everything. It also have same principle of zero-config.

If you think it makes sense, I can create a PR with that implementation. I believe it would make few things easier also.

Btw, I fall in love with charge :D You did a great work!

[brandonweiss]

@thebergamo Thanks so much! I’m glad you love it! ❤️

What are the issues you’re running into with reloading JSX files?

You mean using Parcel to bundle the JavaScript? Or… everything? I’m not totally sure what you’re proposing. My understanding of Parcel is that it’s a high-level application bundler, similar to Webpack. I think that would make Parcel sort of analogous to Charge, rather than something Charge could potentially use internally. But maybe I don’t understand Parcel well enough. Let me know what you were thinking!