Getting gulp to work with livereload

Question

I have got my Gulpfile to compile my sass and am only a "live-reload away from dumping codekit". I am struggling getting this style injection to work though. I am trying to set this up: https://github.com/vohof/gulp-livereload

And when i run gulp in the terminal it seems that it compiles the sass, but it doesnt inject the styles. What am i doing wrong? I installed the livereload extention in chrome + the following node modules:

  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "~3.5.0",
    "gulp-sass": "~0.6.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "gulp-livereload": "~0.2.0",
    "tiny-lr": "0.0.5"
  }

And my gulpfile looks like this:

var gulp = require('gulp');

//plugins
var sass = require('gulp-sass'),
    lr = require('tiny-lr'),
    livereload = require('gulp-livereload'),
    server = lr();

gulp.task('sass', function () {
    gulp.src('./scss/*.scss')
        .pipe(sass())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./'))
        .pipe(livereload(server));
});


// Rerun tasks when a file changes
gulp.task('watch', function () {
    server.listen(35729, function (err) {

        if (err) return console.log(err);

        gulp.watch('scss/**/*.scss', ['sass']);

    });
});





// The default task (called when you run 'gulp' from cli)
// "sass" compiles the sass to css
// "watch" looks for filechanges, and runs tasks accordingly
gulp.task('default', ['sass', 'watch']);

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

Solution 1

are you running off localhost? Go into the settings from the plugin in Chrome and check the option for file urls: chrome://extensions/

Solution 2

Just came across this fantastic tutorial explaining all the points to get Livereload up and running with Gulp:

http://rhumaric.com/2014/01/livereload-magic-gulp-style/

Solution 3

If you're using gulp-livereload, I think there is no point in using tiny-lr as well.

You can find a working example of LiveReload integration here:

https://github.com/kriasoft/spa-seed.front-end - SPA Front-end Starter Kit

Solution 4

I had enabled livereload via browser extensions, but the last thing I needed to do was to click this button to "activate" it on the individual tab.

Solution 5

This is my solution

• In need only this npm modules npm install gulp gulp-sass gulp-livereload express --save-dev

• Put the Scss-Files in /app/styles and Html-Files in /app/

• Install the live-reload-plugin for Chrome.

• Go to http://localhost:4000 and activate the pluin for the current tab

Done :-)

(Don't forget to change the sass-settings for your Project. Set indentedSyntax to false if you are using scss instead of sass)

var gulp = require('gulp'),
  sass = require('gulp-sass'),
  livereload = require('gulp-livereload');

gulp.task('sass', function() {
  gulp.src('app/styles/*.sass')
    .pipe(sass({
      includePaths: ['app/styles'],
      indentedSyntax : true,
      errLogToConsole: true
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('app/css'))
    .pipe(livereload());
});

gulp.task('serve', function(done) {
  var express = require('express');
  var app = express();
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/app'));
  app.listen(4000, function () {
     done();
  });
});

gulp.task('html', function() {
  gulp.src('app/**/*.html')
    .pipe(livereload());
});

gulp.task('watch', function() {
  gulp.watch('app/styles/*.sass', ['sass']);
  gulp.watch('app/**/*.html', ['html']);

  livereload.listen();
});

gulp.task('default', ['watch', 'serve']);

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Comments

[markuz-gj]

I had problems before using only gulp-livereload if you want to use a port different of the default one. Using tiny-lr solved this problem

[Jarno Argillander]

gulp-livereload works fine without tiny-lr: livereload = require('gulp-livereload'); var lr = livereload.listen( { port: 12345, auto: false } ); ..and later... .pipe( livereload( { port: 12345 } ) )