Live reload local Jekyll site in browser on file changes
The other day, I was looking for a way using which I can reload my local Jekyll instance every time I make some changes into the files.
So, I dig through the following --help command hoping to find if something in-built is there or not,
$ jekyll serve --help
And fortunately, there was an option called -l (or --livereload) which can do exactly the same as I wanted which is to detect file changes and live reloading the browser instance.
As you may guess, all we need to do is append the -l option to jekyll serve command like so.
$ jekyll serve -l
And it will automatically reload your local Jekyll site in the browser every time you make changes in files.
You can further couple the -o (or --open-url) option which will launch your site in your browser automatically.
$ jekyll serve -l -o
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