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Request: Add option to not hot-reload certain file paths #53
Description
Hello! I'm trying to upgrade my site to Eleventy 2.0.0 and the only feature I'm missing from the old BrowserSync server is the ability to not inject the snippet on certain pages.
I have a little in-browser editor for my blog and I run and use locally, and when I make edits in there it saves the changes back to the Markdown file on my filesystem. When this happens, it causes a page refresh, which blows away the state of my editor. I'd love to be able to tell Eleventy to not auto-reload that route specifically when a change is detected.
I was previously able to achieve this using this method in my Eleventy config:
config.setBrowserSyncConfig({
snippetOptions: {
ignorePaths: 'pathToIgnore/**',
},
})
Reacted by Thomas Broyer and Ed Horsford
Activity
tbroyer commentedon Mar 7, 2023
My use-case is that I have some HTML files loaded in a "playground" component on some pages (using the playground-elements similar to https://lit.dev/playground), those HTML files aren't directly loaded (as HTML) by the browser but through a service worker, and their content is displayed in the playground editor; the injected reload-client script creates noise in the editor, and doesn't work in the preview pane as its origin is actually from unpkg.com.
I'd like to be able to ignore those files.
edwardhorsford commentedon Jan 5, 2024
I came here to request an equivalent to
ignorePathsalso.My use case is somewhat similar to @chasemccoy - I have a local page I use for data capture, which I don't want to get auto-reloaded such that I lose that data. Without
ignorePathsI'll have to be very careful when working on this page.zachleat commentedon Mar 13, 2025
Not to discount the request (I think it’s still a valuable feature add) but I do want to link up the much more obtuse (but currently available) workaround to disable the
liveReloadoption globally: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/dev-server/