How to refresh a page whenever my json data file changes

Question

So I\'ve got this local file named \'data.json\' containing various data. I want to refresh my page only when some data in the json file changes. Appreciate your help if you

Answer 1

Create a timer, fetch the json file every X milliseconds. If the json contents has changed since the last fetch, reload the page. The sample code below uses JQuery to fetch the json file, and checks every 2000 milliseconds. Be sure the json file contains valid json.