Hawkins is a Jekyll 3 plugin that incorporates LiveReload into the Jekyll "serve" process.
Add the following into your Gemfile
group :jekyll_plugins do
gem 'hawkins'
end
Then run jekyll liveserve to serve your files. The liveserve commands takes
all the arguments that serve does but with a few extras that allow you to
specify the port that LiveReload runs on or how long LiveReload will wait. See
the --help for more information.
Hawkins uses a WEBrick servlet that automatically inserts a script tag into a
page's head section. The script tag points to a LiveReload server running on
the same host (by default on port 35729). That server serves livereload.js
over HTTP and also acts as a WebSockets server that speaks the LiveReload
protocol.
If you don't have a browser that implements WebSockets, you can use the
--swf option that will have Hawkins load a Flash file that implements
WebSockets.
If you tell Jekyll to serve your files over SSL/TLS (by specifying the
--ssl-cert and --ssl-key options), then LiveReload will attempt to use
SSL/TLS as well. If you are using a certificate that a browser would not
normally accept (e.g. self-signed or issued by an unknown certificate
authority), you will need to create an exception for the server and port
that Jekyll is serving content over and also for the server and port that
LiveReload is running on. Generally speaking, these exceptions will be
"127.0.0.1:4000" and "127.0.0.1:35729".
Lots of thanks to guard-livereload and rack-livereload which provided a lot of the code and ideas that Hawkins uses. And of course thanks to the Jekyll team and LiveReload team for providing outstanding software.
Copyright (c) 2014 Alex Wood. See LICENSE.txt for further details.