live editing theme

[tabyouto]

I want to develop a theme, how to edit the theme file then refresh the browser and see the change ?

[julian]

Hi there,

Have you checked out the documentation on editing themes? https://docs.nodebb.org/development/themes/

[tabyouto]

Yes，I have read the documentation, the only way I can check the changes is restart the forum.

inconvenient...

[PitaJ]

The easiest way is to use grunt to automatically restart NodeBB when you've made a theme change:

Running NodeBB - NodeBB Documentation

(docs.nodebb.org)

[tabyouto]

I prefer nodemon

[PitaJ]

Yes well we have a gruntfile set up to already watch the correct directories and do the correct building steps. I don't think nodemon call do that for you.

[tabyouto]

you are right, I saw the grunt file and using the grunt