I can't get a basic example to work.

[avilesj]

First, thank you James for all your contributions to the clojure community.

On to the problem.

I have tried to run this library before with http-kit + reitit/ring unsuccessfully. The script was not being included in the response and I gave up after spending a lot of time in it.

I recently decided to redo my approach and just go very basic, using just ring and the jetty adapter, trying to get some sort of happy path scenario.

In this new iteration, the script is in the response, it tries to make the request but it permanently stays 'pending'. Oddly enough, I do make a change in the hiccup template and the website actively refreshes, does not show the new changes in the tags (still shows the old) and the script tries to make its request, staying in a pending state.

Also for this iteration, I decided to do a very quick poc and got it generated from ChatGPT.

Code

(ns test.core
  (:require [ring.adapter.jetty :refer [run-jetty]]
            [ring.middleware.refresh :refer [wrap-refresh]]
            [hiccup.page :refer [html5]]))

(defn home-page []
  (html5
   [:head
    [:title "Ring Refresh Example"]]
   [:body
    [:h1 "Welcome to the Ring-Refresh Example!"]
    [:p "This page will auto-refresh when you change the source code."]
    [:p "Try changing something and saving the file, and you'll see the update automatically."]]))

(defn handler [request]
  {:status 200
   :headers {"Content-Type" "text/html"}
   :body (home-page)})

(def app
  (wrap-refresh handler))  ;; Wrap your handler with the `wrap-refresh` middleware

(defn -main []
  (run-jetty app {:port 3000}))

[weavejester]

The wrap-refresh middleware injects a script that will refresh the browser when it detects a change in the source files, but the crucial element to understand is that this is all it does. It doesn't reload the source files.

You can reload manually via the REPL, or use something like the wrap-reload middleware in the ring/ring-devel package, which operates similarly to wrap-refresh but reloads files on the server.

[avilesj]

Thanks for the clarification. I have opened #19 updating the README to address my scenario.