This will help us stay motivated, so we should implement it soon.

Fix the new XAML on “actions+files” page (aka ActionsFilesHub control) so that:

• up/down arrows navigate between rows,
• left/right arrows collapse and expand rows.

The XAML does not necessarily need to stay as a TreeView, I would be okay with any choice of controls.

The windows package manager (http://npackd.appspot.com/) packages applications in a single UI for installation. Currently, it is not possible to install LiveReload silently (see http://code.google.com/p/windows-package-manager/issues/detail?id=215#c10). Is it possible to fix that?

UV-3272:

Testing LR for Windows8 with SublimeText2. LR works fine when this used: <link rel="stylesheet" href="less/main.less">, but throws its arms up at <link rel="stylesheet/less" href="less/main.less">. I need the /less bit to get less.js (1.33) to do its magic in the browser.

UV-3355.

Make it possible to only listen for .css / .html files etc, instead of all changes inside a folder. I'm not sure if it's possible already on the Mac version. I have only tried the Windows version.

How can I set up LiveReload to use a different gemset? I tried using both a per project .rvmrc file and a simple 'rvm gemset create' but it just won't recognize them in the drop down list even after a reload of the app.

Thanks!

Merge everything into a single file.

Make sure it's clear that:

• one needs to build the backend before compiling the app;
• which IcedCoffeeScript version to use.

Also document the new Dev Mode.

Already have it in LR2/Mac, need in LR3 too. UI will have to wait until later, but let's get a simple version in asap.

Mac screenshot:

Right now, the dependencies within livereload-core aren't very clear. There is a number of interdependent components; we should reorganize the code so that these components are clearly separated, and then document the dependencies.

From UV-3144:

It appears that LiveReload is doing phantom reloads. I make no change to the directory and yet the page still refreshes. This is a rails app. I wonder if LiveReload is properly excluding temp files (or if there is an option to turn off some paths, such as tmp or svn)

UV-3326:

I can't install LiveReload on my Windows XP SP3, when downloading process reach about 92%, an alert comes out as Cannot Start Application.jpg shows.

The reason is, when the installation trying to download file
http://download.livereload.com/windows/Application%20Files/LiveReload_0_8_6_0/WpfAnimatedGif.dll.deploy
the process was blocked by my proxy virus checking, it says:

VirusName: McAfeeGW: Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious-BAY.K

We need to:

• check if there's a virus in there (probably not)
• replace the file with something else (or get rid of animated gif altogether), because it's not worth the false positives
• notify the maintainers about the virus warning, and the results of our check

From UV-3144:

I noticed another crash at shutdown, here is the log snippet

STDERR: 
STDERR: events.js:72 
STDERR: throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event 
STDERR: ^ 
STDERR: Error: watch EPERM 
STDERR: at errnoException (fs.js:1005:11) 
STDERR: at FSEvent.FSWatcher._handle.onchange (fs.js:1023:26) 
Node.js appears to have crashed. 
LiveReload says bye.

************************************************************************ 
Unhandled Exception in UI thread: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 
at LiveReload.App.EmergencyShutdown(String reason) 
at LiveReload.App.HandleNodeCrash() 
at LiveReload.NodeRPC.<NodeRun>b__2() 
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs) 
at MS.Internal.Threading.ExceptionFilterHelper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler) 
************************************************************************

************************************************************************ 
Unhandled Exception in UI thread: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 
at LiveReload.App.EmergencyShutdown(String reason) 
at LiveReload.App.ReportUnhandledException(Exception exception, String threadName) 
at LiveReload.App.Application_DispatcherUnhandledException(Object sender, DispatcherUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e) 
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CatchException(Exception e) 
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CatchExceptionStatic(Object source, Exception e) 
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.CatchException(Object source, Exception e, Delegate catchHandler) 
at MS.Internal.Threading.ExceptionFilterHelper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler) 
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl() 
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeInSecurityContext(Object state) 
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData) 
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) 
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) 
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx) 
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) 
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke() 
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue() 
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) 
at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled) 
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o) 
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs) 
at MS.Internal.Threading.ExceptionFilterHelper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler) 
************************************************************************

UV-3314

Just one user so far, but for him the problem is 100% reproducible and isn't resolved by restarting LiveReload.

If you have your own script called livereload.js (perhaps you've put our snippet there), the actual livereload.js might try to derive its options from that file, thus accessing a wrong host.

UV-3345.

...and notify UV-3327.

We need to provide a way to configure output paths in the Windows version. This will most likely come as part of the new rules system, but the required UI changes is still a separate task.

UV-3263.

Right now, Twins library does not handle entity collections in any way, and the goal of this ticket is to add first-class support for collections.

Current state

Twins can only:

• perform assignments of simple atomic values (like strings) to entity properties,
• navigate to existing named subentities (#mainwnd #addProjectButton).

It cannot:

• create new entities
• delete entities
• sync lists of entities (i.e. create / delete / update)

While some supported controls (TreeView) can accept a collection of items, the collection is basically treated like an atomic value, and each item does not become an entity.

This has been an acceptable workaround for single-level trees, but won't work when syncing view models, where each item is an entity of its own, and has to participate in further subentity syncing.

Goal

We want an update like this:

{
    "#mainwnd": {
        "#actionGroups": [
            {
                "id": "stylesheets",
                "title": "stylesheets",
                "#actions": [
                    {
                        "id": "compile.sass",
                        "name": "compile sass",
                        "#rules": [
                            {
                                "id": "R12345",
                                "sourceMask": "*.sass",
                                "destinationMask": "*.css",
                                "#files": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "F1234",
                                        "enabled": true,
                                        "sourcePath": "foo.sass",
                                        "destinationPath": "foo.css"
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

to sync the list of ActionGroups, Actions, Rules and RuleFiles inside the view model.

Implementation

Entity syncing should be performed when we reach a property of ObservableCollection type. This property will always be treated as read-only, and the returned collection will be manipulated instead of being overwritten.

We want to create an EntityCollection class to track the list of subentities inside the entity.

It's safe to assume that every model class that we want to sync this way has to provide a string Id property, and we probably want to define a C# interface for that.

We'll need to know which C# class to create when new entities are added; for that, we can probably provide some reasonable default logic (based on the generic type of the ObservableCollection), overridable using an optional interface implemented by the parent entity.

UV-3243. Add a folder to LiveReload, quit the app (maybe), delete the folder, restart the app.

I just found out, why my compass import did not trigger the compass option, when I used it in some other project:

@import 'compass'; /* is not detected by LiveReload */

vs.

@import 'compass/css3'; /* is detected by LiveReload */

You might want to change detection so it triggers with a less verbose import. So others don't have to wonder like me.

LiveReload is great, keep on the great work!

• Jerry

LiveReload 2 hasn't really accumulated any new features in 2.3.x branch, so we should try to get non-sandboxed LiveReload past the App Store review process. We're not guaranteed to be lucky by any means, but it's worth a try.

UV-3294:

i solved this by installing the 2.0.9 version of the extension, I had
2.0.8 before from a official link. Someone on StackOverflow pointed to
2.0.9. Before there was nothing added to the pages HTML i could find. I
am not 1000% sure about this because i sort of done serval things at
once but you might want to update your link here to 2.0.9

Placeholder

UV-3266 (v0.8.5.1):

I'm using Sass (not generated by LiveReload, since I'm generating sourcemaps). If I change a .scss file, the browser at first changes the styles, but then it reloads the whole page, unecessarily so...

If I then modify the CSS file, jsut the styles are reloaded, as you would expect.

UV-3144:

the log file seems to grow very quickly. A first launch resulted in 45MB of entries.

UV-3280:

I just noticed some time ago that something is eating my hdd space.
And in c:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\LiveReload\Logs I've found 5gb of log files.

We need to delete old logs, and we need to reduce the amount of stuff that gets logged.

UV-3352

To test LiveReload, we need every major version of Windows OS installed on h1:

• Windows XP SP3
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows 8

We want stock installs with no additional software added. Also:

• use our BizSpark licenses
• propose a solution for keeping the installs read-only, but still updated with the latest required updates (snapshots? manual switching between mutable and immutable?)
• disable automatic updates, the OSes will not be running long enough to update automatically anyway; we will update each version manually, and don't want surprises
• document any installation/VM options, file paths, VM names, etc somewhere (Gist / Wiki / Workflowy)

Use ClickOnce API to automatically check for updates daily, download the updates and remind the user to install them.

As a first step to delivering a fancy rule system, we want to add a Rules tab that contains a tree looking like:

- CompileLESS: **/*.less → **/*.css
    foo.less → foo.css
    bar.less → bar.css
+ CompileCoffee: **/*.coffee → **/*.js

The configured rules are the top-level items, and if you expand a rule, you see a list of matched files.

We might want to have separate “paths” and “rules” tabs because sometimes it's convenient to browse configuration by file locations, and sometimes by the rules.

You can edit actions, sources and destination of rules, and actions and destinations of individual files. The intended result is that people can choose to ignore rules and configure output paths per-file like in LiveReload 2, or they can choose to ignore files and configure the rules, or any mix of the two.

Only file-to-file compilers are supported for now (e.g. LESS and Sass, but not Compass). The only available types of rules thus are:

• FileToFileRule with three user-visible attributes: action (“CompileLESS”), sourceMask and destinationMask
• FileRule with two user-visible attributes: action (“Ignore”, “ReloadPage”) and sourceMask

In the future, other types of rules will be added to cover subfolder-level compilers (like Compass) and other kinds of actions (SSH uploads, minification, concatenation, etc).

A project starts with a default set of rules, which always have sourceMask of **/*.{source_ext} and destinationMask of **/*.{destination_ext}. These implicit rules are not saved anywhere (so that if the next version of LiveReload has a different set of implicit rules, they will be picked up right away) and are invisible unless they match at least one file.

Users can add and remove rules. These explicit rules take precedence over implicit rules.

Users can change existing rules. When the action is modified, the old rule is deleted and a new one is created. E.g. you can change “CompileLESS” action into “Ignore”, then the sourceMask will be preserved, and destinationMask will disappear.

If you remove an implicit rule, it is converted into an explicit Ignore rule instead. (Or maybe not “Ignore”, but something more appropriate.)

Users can modify the actions and destinations of individual files / selected groups of files. This creates a new rule on top of the current one (so that it takes precedence), or adds the file to a similar existing rule (possibly generalizing the mask). The way masks are produced from individual files will be a bit tricky to get right.

The global “Compilation enabled” switch enables or disables all compilation rules, including the implicit ones. When compilation is disabled, implicit rules are not visible. If you add an explicit compilation rule, compilation is automatically enabled, and Ignore rules are added as if you manually removed all implicit rules.

At least that's the plan. :-)

Although this will be a part of LiveReload 3, we should actually release a LiveReload 2 update that adds this feature.

Looks like sometimes LiveReloadNodejs.exe is kept running after LiveReload.exe quits, preventing future updates. Might be related to crashes or something. Observed both in development, and on UV-3205.

Add res/bundled/something.7z.hash for each bundled resource, store this instead of the timestamp file when extracting, use it for comparison. (At run time, the contents of the file is basically an opaque version identifier string; the exact hashing algorithm is not important.)

I've noticed that when the live reload app is running I am not able to use the arrow keys in photoshop. Am I a one off case of this or it is a bug?

UV-3243 (v0.8) and UV-3078 (v0.7). Apparently there's something weird going on while Adobe's app is saving a file. Results in a crash. (Doubly weird in v0.8 where we ignore all errors from fs monitor class.)

UV-3313:

This looks like a bug: I set foo.styl to compile to foo.styl.css but it compiles to foo.css

Confirmed that the output file name is ignored completely.

As far as I could see there are some issues with 8.5.1:

1. it does not refresh when .css files are modified. This should trigger auto-refresh.
2. it does not refresh when .scss files are modified (which is right) but it counts the scss modifications as changes and refreshes (info in the lower part of app). I don't know what the policy is, if it should count it as modification, but for shure it should not count it as a refresh since no refresh is done.
3. .haml files trigger auto-refresh which is not right.

Ideally, we want a portable version with automatic update notifications, but it's probably not possible out of the box with ClickOnce, and so can be done some day later.

For a start, we want a script that simply packages the binaries as a zip and uploads to download.livereload.com.

Love LR. Can't work without it. Since the App Store version is far behind the GH one, I tried to compile LR on my own, but came across multiple problems.

When following instructions from devel we'll get this:

$ iced -I inline -c cli
File not found: cli.coffee

When following instructions from master we'll get the following:

$ rake backend
rake aborted!
cannot load such file -- tasks/backend
/Users/oskar/Desktop/LiveReload2/Rakefile:5:in `<top (required)>'

Any tips on why the instructions are causing these issues?

UV-3239:

Just got a crash using Windows version 0.8.4.0
I was using Livereload with Safari for Windows 5.1.7 (Livereload extension
2.0.9). The crash happened just at the moment I closed the browser.

The log:

INCOMING: ["rpc",{"#mainwnd":{"#textBlockStatus":{"text":"Idle. 1 browser connected. 1 change, 0 files compiled, 1 refresh so far."}}}]
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:18 GMT wsio:drafts websocket-hixie received data packet {"command":"info","plugins":{"less":{"disable":false,"version":"1.0"}},"url":"http://127.0.0.1:90/gcba/PortalFestivales-2013/htdocs/web/"}
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:18 GMT livereload:server LRWebSocketConnection(C3) received {"command":"info","plugins":{"less":{"disable":false,"version":"1.0"}},"url":"http://127.0.0.1:90/gcba/PortalFestivales-2013/htdocs/web/"}
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:18 GMT livereload:core:session Ignoring unknown command info: {"command":"info","plugins":{"less":{"disable":false,"version":"1.0"}},"url":"http://127.0.0.1:90/gcba/PortalFestivales-2013/htdocs/web/"}
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT reactive Change: Stats0.connectionCount is now 0
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT reactive Executing block MainWindow0_B0_render_status
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT reactive MainWindow0_B0_render_status depends on MainWindow(#mainwnd).status
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT reactive MainWindow0_B0_render_status depends on Stats0.connectionCount
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT reactive MainWindow0_B0_render_status depends on Stats0.changes
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT reactive MainWindow0_B0_render_status depends on Stats0.compilations
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT reactive MainWindow0_B0_render_status depends on Stats0.refreshes
STDERR: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMT livereload:rpc Node to App: ["rpc",{"#mainwnd":{"#textBlockStatus":{"text":"Idle. 0 browsers connected. 1 change, 0 files compiled, 1 refresh so far."}}}]
INCOMING: ["rpc",{"#mainwnd":{"#textBlockStatus":{"text":"Idle. 0 browsers connected. 1 change, 0 files compiled, 1 refresh so far."}}}]
STDERR: 
STDERR: events.js:72
STDERR:         throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
STDERR:               ^
STDERR: Error: read ECONNRESET
STDERR:     at errnoException (net.js:863:11)
STDERR:     at TCP.onread (net.js:524:19)
Node.js appears to have crashed.
LiveReload says bye.

As per UV-3243, we have two issues with corrupted data file:

1. The fact that it gets corrupted in the first place. Waiting for more into on that.

2. The fact that we crash when it gets corrupted:

   STDERR: 
   STDERR: C:\Users\Borek\AppData\Local\LiveReload\Bundled\backend\lib\services\preferences.js:32
   STDERR:             LR.log.wtf("Failed to parse preference file " + _this.path);
   STDERR:                    ^
   STDERR: TypeError: Cannot call method 'wtf' of undefined
   STDERR:     at C:\Users\Borek\AppData\Local\LiveReload\Bundled\backend\lib\services\preferences.js:32:20
   STDERR:     at fs.js:252:14
   STDERR:     at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:93:15)
   

We need to show a reasonable UI message and recover by backing up the data file and overwriting it with a new one.

Hey

since switching to the most up-to-date chrome dev, LiveReload2 has stopped refreshing my page.

An interesting error I see is that the number of connected browsers is constantly increasing, it seems to not pick up disconnect events from this chrome at all.

I tried to install the browser plug-in (I was using just the script previously) and the plugin (2.0.5) does not fix things either. It complains that it can't connect to the LiveReload 2 Server when it's clicked, but the connected browser count further increases.

Thanks!

I'm busy reinstalling non-dev chrome to compare its behaviour, will report back.

UV-3321. See the screenshot.

Provide free/discounted licenses for the early users in exchange for their email addresses.

E.g.:

• free license for those who sign up until May 1
• 75% discount for those who sign up until June 1
• 50% discount for those who sign up until July 1

This should be an in-app offer that POSTs their email address to our API endpoint. The form looks like this:

Email: ___________________________

We'll send an email with your discount code when we launch.

Additionally, sign up for LiveReload newsletter (once per month) for:
  [ ] Windows   [ ] Mac   [ ] Linux

[ submit ]

Our goal here is to:

• reward early users for the inconveniences they had to put up with;
• spread the news about the launch faster by emailing a large group of people.

Not sure when and how the form should be displayed, though. Maybe as an ‘early-bird offer’ item in the main tree.

1. Discover a way to override install URL and release a version into a staging environment, so that it can be tested with ClickOnce, but without pushing it into the main autoupdate channel.

   (Hint hint: build with a staging install URL once. Copy that Setup.exe somewhere. Will it install from the staging environment?)

2. Propose a staging URL on S3 server, have me sign off on it. Preferably, the binary files should be shared, only the app manifest should have a different name.

3. Create the scripts to release into a staging environment.

4. Describe the staging process (how to release and how to install a stage version) in a Wiki page of this repo.

1. Have the Windows version check for updates in background — on every startup and every hour after that (don't save any timestamps, just set an hourly timer on startup).
2. When an update is available, download and install it in the background without further confirmations or notifications.
3. Show a ‘restart to update to vX.Y.Z’ banner in the title bar that includes the new version number (do not consult with me on the formatting, I will adjust it to my taste later); show version number as X.Y.Z or X.Y.Z.U depending on whether U is zero.
4. Clicking the banner restarts the app without further confirmations.
5. Make sure the new version is picked up upon restart.
6. Provide a debug option (in the service menu; on/off toggle) to override update checking to run every minute instead (for debugging).
7. Provide a debug option (in the service menu; on/off toggle) to simulate a failed update on the next check; do it by overriding update URL to a one that points to a release that's always newer (like v99.0.0), but is missing some of the files.
8. Make sure that failed updates are handled properly (i.e. completely ignored without additional messages).

From UV-3245:

The protocol docs say:

"Each protocol URL MUST be globally unique, and MUST point to an HTML or text document either describing the protocol itself or referencing the related product."

However, the protocol URLs for versions 6 and 7 (at least) return a 404:

http://livereload.com/protocols/official-7