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The idea

To speed up my development I want to automatically refresh the browser if I change the file test.html.

My setup

I'm on Linux and I start my server with

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

in a terminal so that I can open my test.html in my browser with

http://localhost:8000/test.html

I have to open the test.html like this (and not with file://) because I use live.js. This javascript tool checks every second (!) if test.html has changed..and if so it refreshes the browser automatically.

My problem

The checking interval keeps increasing...

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...and increasing....

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...and never seems to stop

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At the end if I change the test.html file is takes a lot of time to refresh the browser.

My question

I want to work live.js in real time but I think the server slows the process down. Am I right?

How can I get live.js to work in real time?

EDIT

As Serge Ballesta suggested I increased the interval to 10 sec but this doesn't work neither.

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  • What would be the reason to check for a file update every second? Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 8:14
  • It's on a development environment. I want to see my changes in real time. Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 8:15
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    To make sure, I would either install an Apache httpd server and test the unchanged Live.js against it, or try to tweak Live.js to use an interval of 10s. If either works at a constant rate, then it would be an evidence that SimpleHTTPServer is not meant to absord a charge of 1 request per second. Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 8:37
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