Development Server

The tool comes with it's own dev server (since v0.2.4), and can be used to run a simple file server for the output folder.

It's as simple as running the following command

$ alvu --serve
# short for
$ alvu --serve --port=3000

Live Reload

Added in v0.2.9

There's no changes that you need to do, just upgrade your installation to v0.2.9

What's to be expected

• Will reload on changes from the directories pages, public , or if you changed them with flags then the respective paths will be watched instead

• The rebuilding process is atomic and will recompile a singular file if that's all that's changed instead of compiling the whole folder. This is only true for files in the pages directory, if any changes were made in public directory then the whole alvu setup will rebuild itself again.

Caveats

• ./hooks are not watched, this is because hooks have their own state and involve a VM, the current structure of alvu stops us from doing this but should be done soon without increasing complexity or size of alvu itself.