Updating many files at the same time causes livereload to reload the files insanely many times about node-livereload HOT 6 CLOSED

I've set debug to true, and can se that node-livereload is actually only trying to refresh the specific files that have changed. Seems like the problem is in the chrome plugin? I'd like to try in firefox as well, but it refuses to install the plugin since it not verified.

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Using the old firefox add-on, it does the same thing. One file change => reloads everything. Disabling the security check and installing the new add-on gives the same behavior.

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I think I've figured it out, the livereload server is sending an event saying that wwwroot\css\mains\create-task\style\main.css is updated, but the plugin can not find that files since the web page is in wwwroot itself, so it updates all the stylesheets instead. So I need an option to define the base path so that this server knows to send the event with css\mains\create-task\style\main.css instead.

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I hacked around it like this, I had to unixify the slashes as well:

module.exports = function (watchDir) {

    var slash = require("slash");

    return function () {

        var livereload = require('livereload');
        server = livereload.createServer({
            debug: true,
            originalPath: "http://localhost/mac",
        });

        var oldFunc = server.filterRefresh;
        server.filterRefresh = function (filePath) {
            filePath = slash(filePath.replace("wwwroot\\", ""));
            oldFunc.call(this, filePath);
        };

        return server.watch("wwwroot/css/");
    }
}

This works well except that it emitts a change event three times for some files, but that's good enough for me.

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This is interesting. I'm trying to wrap my head around the problem a little more. Can you create a simplified repository that exhibits the incorrect behavior?

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Closing.

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