ElectronJS Hot Reload

It is a simple method to restart your application.

Features:

• Separate watchers in main and renderer processes.
• No magic, you necessary specify path files.
• You can use hooks before reload.
• Will catch error, if you want.

Example

First, you should install this package:

# Yarn
yarn add electron-hot-reload

# NPM
npm install --save electron-hot-reload

Next, you should create watchers:

import { mainReloader, rendererReloader } from 'electron-hot-reload';
import { app } from 'electron';
import path from 'path';

const mainFile = path.join(app.getAppPath(), 'dist', 'main.js');
const rendererFile = path.join(app.getAppPath(), 'dist', 'renderer.js');

mainReloader(mainFile, undefined, (error, path) => {
  console.log("It is a main's process hook!");
});

rendererReloader(rendererFile, undefined, (error, path) => {
  console.log("It is a renderer's process hook!");
});

Do you want to example application?

Documentation

mainReloader( paths, ignored, handler, options ) => void

If this is method detects changes, it will restart the application.

Argument	Type	Requered	Description
paths	string or string[]	true	Paths to files and dirs to recursively watch.
ignored	RegExp or RegExp[]	false	RegExp to file or dirs to ignore.
handler	function	false	Callback function to create hooks.
options	object	false	Additional options to chokidar.

rendererReloader( paths, ignored, handler, options ) => void

If this is method detects changes, it will restart the application's windows.

Argument	Type	Requered	Description
paths	string or string[]	true	Paths to files and dirs to recursively watch.
ignored	RegExp or RegExp[]	false	RegExp to file or dirs to ignore.
handler	function	false	Callback function to create hooks.
options	object	false	Additional options to chokidar.

License

MIT. Copyright (c) Valentin Popov.