WLXWebViewReloader

WLXWebViewReloader helps you develop iOS projects that depend on code executed inside a WKWebView. As you might know every time you update a resource file (like a Javascript source file) you need to perform a clean build in order for those changes to get updated into the ipa file. Depending on the size of your project and the amount of resources could take quite a bit of time and doing a clean install every time you update a line of (Javascript) code might upset you.

Using this Pod and the webview-reloader-server you no longer need to do a clean install every time you update your Javascript code. The webview-reloader-server will watch for changes in your source code and it will automatically reload the webview. The server also serves (pound intended) the webview's HTML page for you to be able to edit the source code without needing to re-deploy the app.

Usage

To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first.

Requirements

For this Pod to actually work you need to install the webview-reloader-server.

brew install node
npm install -g webview-reloader-server

Installation

WLXWebViewReloader is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "WLXWebViewReloader"

Usage

In your view controller import WLWebViewReloader category

#import <WLXWebViewReloader/WKWebView+WLXWebViewReloader.h>

and here is an example of how to configure the web view

#import "ViewController.h"
#import <WLXWebViewReloader/WKWebView+WLXWebViewReloader.h>

@import WebKit;

@interface ViewController ()<WKNavigationDelegate, WLXWebViewReloaderDelegate>

@property (nonatomic) WKWebView * webView;
@property (nonatomic) WLXWebViewReloader * webViewReloader;

@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)loadView {
    [super loadView];
    self.webView = [[WKWebView alloc] init];
    self.view = self.webView;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

#ifdef DEBUG
    self.webView.reloaderIdentifier = @"MyWebView";
    self.webView.reloaderDelegate = self;
    [self.webView reloadOnFileChange];
#endif

    NSURL * URL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"index" withExtension:@"html"];
    NSURLRequest * request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:URL];
    self.webView.navigationDelegate = self;
    [self.webView loadLocalRequest:request];
}

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [self.webView startListeningToFileChanges];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
    [self.webView stopListeningToFileChanges];
}

#pragma mark - WLXWebViewReloaderDelegate methods

- (void)webViewReloader:(WLXWebViewReloader *)reloader didFailToConnect:(NSError *)error {
    NSLog(@"Error connecting reloader: %@", error);
}

- (void)webViewReloaderDidConnect:(WLXWebViewReloader *)reloader {
    NSLog(@"Reloader connected!");
}

- (void)webViewReloader:(WLXWebViewReloader *)reloader willReloadWebView:(WKWebView *)webView {
    NSLog(@"Web view about to be reloaded");
}

- (void)webViewReloader:(WLXWebViewReloader *)reloader didReloadWebView:(WKWebView *)webView {
    NSLog(@"Web view reloaded!");
}

@end

The reloaderIdentifier of the web view needs to match the listener's name you configured in the webview-reloader-server's configuration file.

Also you need to call loadLocalRequest: instead of loadRequest to be able to load the source code from the web server. If the reloader has not been configured the loadLocalRequest forwards to loadRequest.

About

This project is maintained by Guido Marucci Blas and it was written by Wolox.

License

WLXWebViewReloader is available under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2014 Guido Marucci Blas <[email protected]>

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