Auto-reload browser when I save changes to html file, in Chrome?

Question

I\'m editing an HTML file in Vim and I want the browser to refresh whenever the file underneath changes.

Is there a plugin for Google Chrome that will listen for ch

Answer 1

Handy Bash one-liner for OS X, assuming that you have installed fswatch (brew install fswatch). It watches an arbitrary path/file and refreshes the active Chrome tab when there are changes:

fswatch -o ~/path/to/watch | xargs -n1 -I {} osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to tell the active tab of its first window to reload'

See more about fswatch here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13807906/3510611