Sublime livereload local file12/30/2023 ![]() If you've ever had to write a blog post using one of those horrible little TinyMCE editors you will appreciate I produceĮverything in Sublime Text 2 and every day I discover new tricks to make the processīetter. Second, writing in your favorite text editor is also awesome. Once you learn the syntax it's incredibly fast and you don't have to spend time playing with a tiny little editor window just to add some style to your posts. There are 3 huge benefits to this approach. WSYWIG linked to MySQL (like Wordpress or Blogger) you produce text files using Markdown which are then converted to Jekyll isĪ static site generator, meaning there's no database associated with your blog. Octopress is a blogging framework written by Brandon Mathis Philosophy that so many of us love, which is small and modular, rather Intricacies of a giant monolithic blogging platform, then the If you used to writing real web applications, rather than know the ![]() Using LiveReload, and deployed at no charge on. ![]() On recreating this sort of blog using Octopress with Org Mode authoring, This endeavor, including my first Octopress article, and the latest tips So I bit the bullet one weekend, and dove into Organization of creative thoughts so much more enjoyable. Iįound that ergonomics of Org Mode, including all the goodness of recent WordPress editor felt almost as bad as being told to use MS Word. YouĬan have a numbered list in Markdown, but org-mode lets you re-order the You don't know Org Mode, it's like having Markdown mode on steroids. I love Org Mode for all non-coding writing. I spend all my day editing text files using vim key-bindings, and WordPress seemed like a good blogging platform, but it just didn't feel Seeįor the updated version applying to Emacs 24.3 and org-mode 8.2.x Pretty darn cool and useful I think, but CodePen isn’t yet really for your actual web development workflow.Note: This is post applies to Emacs 23 with org-mode 7.8.x. For the RecordĬodePen does as-you-type live updating as well as has a Live View mode. I have Divvy set up to only have left and right boxes, no complex grid. I love using Divvy to super quickly snap my code editor to the right and the browser to the left and get started working right away. ![]() That’s a lot of steps to reproduce that state for each minor styling change. Imagine you’re trying to style a rollover of a custom dropdown that appears in a panel that is by default closed. This gets more useful the more complex the state is. A dialog box is a common example of that. Not all states have a URL change associated with them. While using an app that does style injection, you can leave that dialog box open in the browser and author CSS that changes it and watch those changes happen immediately without refreshing the browser and losing that state. Say you have a dialog box that pops up with a click and you want to style that dialog box. Why is Style Injection cool?īecause the page doesn’t refresh, you can style the page without affecting its state. It’s open source so maybe someone could add it =). Mixture is going to have live updating as well, but I haven’t looked into how they are doing it just yet. Without the script tag you can get it working in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. If you’re willing to put a script tag on your page, LiveReload works in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Mobile Safari, and Opera (with finagling). CodeKit only works with Safari and Chrome this way, but does so automatically without browser extensions. I’m a fan of CodeKit which has now also been doing this for a good while. But when you change CSS (whether it is preprocessed or not) the styles are “injected” meaning they take effect on the page without a refresh. Even that is handy, as it saves switching applications and manually refreshing the page. The name “LiveReload” implies that it reloads the page for you, which is true when you change HTML or JavaScript. Through browser extensions, as you save files, the changes are injected automatically. The first to come along that I knew of was LiveReload. No offense if you use and these editors or working this way, it’s just not for me. And besides, those aren’t going to work great when you’re preprocessing CSS. I like doing my testing in browsers that people use. Now that is built into Espresso and at a quick glance I saw it still does previews but not split pane editable previews.īut they used some built-in WebKit thing to do it, running who knows exactly what version. This isn’t a brand new concept, I just mention it now because it’s so awesome that if it’s not a part of your workflow you should consider updating yours to include it.įor a long time, Dreamweaver had the ability to show you a live preview of what you were building. By “style injection”, I mean being able to see styling changes immediately after authoring them without having to manually refresh your browser window.
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