[jbosstools-dev] Feedback on JBoss Tools Cordova

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 12 Feb 2014, at 9:49, Mickael Istria wrote:

> On 02/12/2014 09:44 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> The presentation, from Sebastien Paul, was mainly showing simple 
>>> usage of Cordova CLI. The demo showed many things that are available 
>>> in the Cordova Eclipse plugins as well (create a project, add 
>>> plugin, start ios emulator...). The only thing he didn't have in his 
>>> CLI demo compared to the video is CordovaSim/Ripple.
>>> He also demoed something nice: a livereload-cordova plugin ( 
>>> https://github.com/fingerproof/cordova-plugin-gapreload and 
>>> https://vimeo.com/81192559 ). This is interesting because it allows 
>>> to configure the packaged application (the apk, ios, or whatever 
>>> actual package) to use livereload to check for updates of some of 
>>> its resources. So you can get livereload enabled on your actual 
>>> tests devices while developing a cordova application and see updates 
>>> without any need to repackage or redeploy the application. It's IMO 
>>> a great productivity boost. Of course, this is something people 
>>> wouldn't like to ship as part of there delivery, and is only good 
>>> for development purpose. See last paragraph for more thoughts on 
>>> this topic.
>>
>> nice - should work automagically with our live reload implementation 
>> too if I grok the demo right.
> Yes, but the plugin requires to configure the URL of livereload 
> server. So JBoss Tools Cordova should expose a property or provide a 
> hook to avoid hardcoding this property in the plugin config.

isn't this the same for the live reload mac app ?

/max
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