Ripple does exactly what serve does but provides an in-browser emulator experience on top
On 8/6/13 7:47 AM, "Wargo, John" <john.wa...@sap.com> wrote: >Thanks. Another question, how is Ripple used with the CLI? > >John M. Wargo >SAP | Charlotte, NC | USA >Office: +1 704.321.0265 | Mobile: +1 704.249.7476 >Email: john.wa...@sap.com >Twitter: @johnwargo > >-----Original Message----- >From: mmo...@google.com [mailto:mmo...@google.com] On Behalf Of Michal >Mocny >Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 10:21 AM >To: dev >Subject: Re: Serve vs. opening an HTML file in the browser > >file:// urls come with a lot of restrictions in chrome in desktop, but >that >isn't the intended use case anyway. > >The intended purpose was to load the web assets from a mobile device >instead of loading the bundled versions, so as to get rapid edit-refresh >when not making changes to native bits. As Andrew points out 'serve' >command will 'prepare' whenever necessary (grunt watch?) and also serve up >files via local web server. > >The simple local alternative may be to just use your own local web server >from the top level www/ dir, thus avoiding the need to prepare -- but it >only works if and only if you do not use merges/, and none of your plugins >have web assets (js-modules are fine I think?), which is not usually the >situation. > >-Michal > > >On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> >wrote: > >> One of the original motivations for "cordova serve" was for it to watch >>for >> changes and automatically run "prepare" for you. I don't think this is >> working right now though. >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Anis KADRI <anis.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > XHRs won't work by default on certain browsers such as Chrome. I don't >> > think there are any other benefits. >> > This restriction does not exist on a device. >> > >> > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:13 PM, John M. Wargo <jwarg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > Can someone help me understand why I would want to use cordova serve >> > rather >> > > than just loading the web content in the browser directly (through >> File - >> > > Open for example)? >> > > >> > > Is there something special that serve does that makes this approach >> > better? >> > >>
