I am trying to get livereload working in gulp.js. I have the livereload extenstion in my browser. This is my gulpfile.js. Can anyone see any problems. I have tried many variants and watched many videos and tutorials. I am running ampps and it's a wordpress installation
var gulp = require('gulp'),
livereload = require('gulp-livereload');
lr = require('tiny-lr');
server = lr();
gulp.task('styles', function() {
return gulp.src('style.css')
.pipe(livereload(server))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./'))
});
// Watch
gulp.task('watch', function() {
// // Listen on port 35729
server.listen(35729, function (err) {
if (err) {
return console.log(err)
};
// Watch .scss files
gulp.watch('style.css', ['styles']);
});
});
// Default task
gulp.task('default', ['styles', 'watch']);
.. ..
EDIT: for anyone interested the finished file I got working in the end with help from Ghidello's answer below was:
var gulp = require('gulp'),
livereload = require('gulp-livereload');
gulp.task('styles', function() {
return gulp.src('style.css')
.pipe(livereload())
});
// Watch
gulp.task('watch', function() {
livereload.listen();
gulp.watch('style.css', ['styles']);
});
// Default task
gulp.task('default', ['styles', 'watch']);
gulp-livereload is a wrapper around the tiny-lr package so you don't need to use them both. It uses the same port you're using by default so, accordingly to its documentation page, you can get rid of tiny-lr completely and change your watch step to something like this: