New LiveReload Backend

[mattdesl]

I've been thinking about switching out tiny-lr for a more custom solution that uses uws in the server and plain old WebSocket on the client.

This might allow for:

• Cleaner dependency tree and smaller footprint (tiny-lr has been a bit sketchy to depend on...)
• The LiveReload stuff can run on the same port/server as budo
• Better error handling and messaging; i.e. faster and more reliable LiveReload reconnections, better handling of IP changes, etc.
• More control over LiveReload; potentially opening the door to features like #104

Downsides:

• Since budo's HTTP server will provide the LiveReload client script, we have to name it something obscure to avoid a conflict with an actual user script
• We lose some features of LiveReload like legacy browser support and image reloading (is anyone using that?)

[mattdesl]

Some progress this week — you can test like so:

npm install mattdesl/budo#feature/livereload-rework -g

[mattdesl]

More progress in the same branch.

• CSS reloading is more robust in my tests across latest versions of: FF/Chrome/Safari and iOS Safari/Android Chrome. Things like deeply nested style sheets (due to imports), reloading <style> tags, etc works more reliably and without any flashing of unstyled content.
• Things seem perceptually faster but I should do some benchmarks to be sure.
• Much cleaner error handling when clients disconnect or IP changes, it will generally reconnect smoothly
• All runs on the same server as budo so no need for a second port or second server
• Allows some new and interesting APIs/features

There are various open questions like: how should the LiveReload client be bundled and served to the user? How many times should budo try to re-connect to the LiveReload server? Should we expose the LiveReload client (send / receive events from budo's WebSocketServer) to the user, or force them to write their own client-side WebSocket handling if they want that sort of thing?

You can see some experimental LiveReload extensions but I'm still not 100% sure that will make it into budo.

[mattdesl]

BOOM

done. mostly.

[tintenfrei]

Got this on my terminal when running canvas-sketch: can you give me a hint of how to solve it?

NOTE: The bundled LiveReload client could not be found, so budo will generate this on the fly. This is most likely because you are using a git cloned version of budo instead of installing it from npm. You can run this from your cloned budo folder to create a build: npm run bundle-live-client