Reloader

This library uses Chrome's remote debugging which allows to reload tabs remotely.

Installation

Make sure you have a correctly configured Go environment. See here for instructions.

Then, to install:

go get gitlab.com/stop.start/go-chrome-remote-reload

Getting started

RemoteConfig structure configures Chrome's remote debugging protocol and is used to open a new window as well as reload and close tabs. The remote debugging protocol can be used also with Chromium or any Chrome-like browser supporting this protocol. See documetation for details on the configuration.

The following will get the default config and open the browser on localhost:8080:

package main

import(
    "gitlab.com/stop.start/go-chrome-remote-reload"
)

rc := NewRemoteConfig()
rc.RemoteChrome()

To reload the only opened tab ReloadAllTabs is the easiest:

rc.ReloadAllTabs()

Examples

Use chromium instead of chrome:

rc := RemoteConfigDefault()
rc.ExecName = "chromium"
rc.RemoteChrome()

Open two tabs and reload one of them:

rc := reloader.NewRemoteConfig()

rc.Addr = "google.com"
rc.Port = 80
rc.RemoteChrome()

rc.Addr = "github.com"
rc.Port = 80 // not required since already set but more readable.
rc.RemoteChrome()

rc.ReloadTab("github.com/")

Reload tabs under same path: Here only github.com/golang/go won't reload.

rc := reloader.NewRemoteConfig()

rc.Addr = "github.com"
	rc.Port = 80
	rc.Route = "/golang/go"
	rc.RemoteChrome()

	rc.Addr = "github.com"
	rc.Port = 80
	rc.Route = "/golang/go/tree/master/misc"
	rc.RemoteChrome()

	rc.Addr = "github.com"
	rc.Port = 80
	rc.Route = "/golang/go/tree/master/test"
	rc.RemoteChrome()

rc.ReloadTab("tree/")

Close all tabs which also means closing Chrome :

rc.CloseAllTabs()