This is a small sample application implemented in Golang which can programmatically refresh a tab in a browser. It is accompanying a blog post I've written about the subject with all the details: .
It hosts a small WebSocket service with a single reload
endpoint, to which we can connect from the browser, and send a message every time we want it to be reloaded.
First, compile the application by running the script build.sh
, it'll put the output in the file bin/reload
.
./build.sh
Then start up the application.
bin/reload
Then open the static file reloadtest.html
in the browser.
Every time we press Enter in the terminal, the page should display a message. If we uncomment the location.reload()
call, then instead of printing a message, the tab will be refreshed.