alumna / liven

Optimized and lightweight live reload library on 64kB

Alumna Fontend: Development for Humans

Alumna is a front-end meta-framework and its goal is to make universal app development as human-friendly as possible, without compromising high performance and security.

Alumna is open-source (MIT), written in Javascript and based on Svelte.

Features

• Easy built-in routing
• Easy component creation (HTML and CSS)
• Component auto-loading and auto-caching
• Easy consumption of HTTP API's
• Easy route filters

License

Copyright (c) 2015-2024 Paulo Coghi and contributors. Released under an MIT license.

liven's Issues

[Performance] Optional integration with watchexec

In order to fulfill the improvements discussed on alumna/alumna#73, let's integrate the usage of watchexec as an optional.

Expose the `clear` feature from Pulsa

Error on first load of non-index path when spa is true

Run liven with spa: true, go to localhost:3000/non-index-path, errors with the following:

(node:23462) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'reverses' of undefined
    at P (/home/robin/work/livereload/node_modules/@alumna/liven/dist/liven.cjs.js:1:14448)
    at G (/home/robin/work/livereload/node_modules/@alumna/liven/dist/liven.cjs.js:1:16984)
    at Server.<anonymous> (/home/robin/work/livereload/node_modules/@alumna/liven/dist/liven.cjs.js:1:51256)
    at Server.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at parserOnIncoming (_http_server.js:695:12)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:111:17)
(node:23462) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 2)
(node:23462) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Node version 10.32.2 lts dubnium.

Create a `cli` mode

It would be interesting to offer a CLI mode, where the library can be used without code, just calling it from the command-line, passing the desired arguments as options.