hotside

Hot sideloading of javascript code in a browser without serving any files

hotside lets you hotload inside another environment, without hijacking your ordinary web host. It gets you a fast hook that watches over the node_modules folder and lets you hot-load yourself.

For example: You're building a plugin for an existing environment that does not support hot module replacement, and reloading the entire environment is taking a lot of time, you would rather just reload the specific component you're working on.

Usage

Navigate to your root directory and use npm i hotside && npx hotside You're now running the hotside service and will see something like Started on port 16567

In your code, you can use hotside like this to get a hook with a new instance of a component each time it updates:

import myComponentFactory from 'my-component';
import hot from 'hotside';

let mycomponent = myComponentFactory();

hot('node_modules/my-component/dist/comp.js', (newComponentFactory) => {
    mycomponent = newComponentFactory();
});

Drawdowns

• Currently only watches node_modules folder, but it's made for linking packages.

TODO

• Fix tests. Currently, there are none.
• Rather than watching the whole node_modules tree, watch specific files on subscribe instead. This wouldn't even break the API currently, but I'm just too lazy to rewrite it.
• Sourcemap support? Inline loading of non-inline sourcemaps?