electron-connectを使用したLiveReload

gulpfile.js

@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
 
 var gulp = require('gulp');
 var prettify = require('gulp-jsbeautifier');
+var electron = require('electron-connect').server.create({
+  path: './src'
+});
 var packager = require('electron-packager');
 var packageJson = require('./src/package.json');
 
-var sources = ['**/*.js', '**/*.css', '**/*.html', '!node_modules/**', '!release/**'];
+var sources = ['**/*.js', '**/*.css', '**/*.html', '!**/node_modules/**', '!release/**'];
 
 gulp.task('prettify', function() {
   gulp.src(sources)
@@ -24,6 +27,15 @@ gulp.task('prettify', function() {
     .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
 });
 
+gulp.task('serve', function() {
+  var options = ['--livereload'];
+  electron.start(options);
+  gulp.watch(sources, function() {
+    electron.broadcast('stop');
+    electron.restart(options);
+  });
+});
+
 gulp.task('package', function() {
   packager({
     dir: './src',
@@ -32,6 +44,7 @@ gulp.task('package', function() {
     arch: 'all',
     version: '0.33.6',
     out: './release',
+    prune: true,
     overwrite: true
   }, function(err, appPath) {
     if (err) {

package.json

@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
   "main": "main.js",
   "author": "Yuya Ochiai",
   "license": "MIT",
+  "scripts": {
+    "postinstall": "cd src && npm install"
+  },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "electron-connect": "^0.3.3",
     "electron-packager": "^5.1.0",
     "gulp": "^3.9.0",
     "gulp-jsbeautifier": "^1.0.1"

src/main.js

@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window'); // Module to create native browse
 var Menu = require('menu');
 var appMenu = require('./app-menu');
 
+var client = null;
+if (process.argv.indexOf('--livereload') > 0) {
+  client = require('electron-connect').client.create();
+  client.on('stop', function() {
+    app.quit();
+  });
+}
+
 // Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
 // be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
 var mainWindow = null;

src/package.json

@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@
   "description": "",
   "main": "main.js",
   "author": "Yuya Ochiai",
-  "license": "MIT"
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "electron-connect": "^0.3.3"
+  }
 }