Live update sketch when code changes

[sepans]

Editor can detect the changes in editor and pass the changes with websocket to the canvas window. In global mode browser window handles the message and updates window.[setup/draw/variableName] accordingly.

[indefinit]

+1 for this feature. This would really help speed up sketching. Also, doing it with a websocket is cool but I don't think it's completely necessary to get livereload functionality.

[blindfish3]

Look at tools like Browsersync, Webpack etc. I believe they use websockets and this allows selective updating of assets (e.g. HTML and CSS) without reloading the whole page (also see Brackets.io which will automatically update HTML edits on the fly without even saving the source file!). Apparently Webpack live-updates JS module changes - which is super cool. Whether that's applicable in the context of p5js I don't know... Anyway, doing a whole page reload on asset save is old-school...