Save bundle to file for devtools life reload

[jbraekr]

Chrome dev tools have their own editor with life reload. That works also with external files, if they are associated with a file on the file system. So saving a file with an ide triggers chromes inbuild life reload. If budo would save its bundle, it could be associated and chrome could use its own life-reload.

Chrome life-reloads functions, keeping all data and stack intact. Which is sometimes usefull. Break at a regex and fiddle with it with the current data.

[mattdesl]

That's a pretty cool idea, I will test it out.

[mattdesl]

I tested this out and it's OK, but has a few major issues:

• On syntax issues and other errors (even Canvas drawing errors, like negative radius), sometimes it can't resolve itself, so you have to hard reload the page.
• If the bundle is too large, the debugger freezes (happens often in ThreeJS and React applications)
• You have to keep DevTools open during development
• It's a bit slow to resolve changes

You can achieve it with a very minimal node.js script on top of budo:

https://gist.github.com/mattdesl/c11a4cebd7fa160cbb610251678d0b9f

[mattdesl]

Going to close since I think this issue is mostly resolved.