Updates!

I’ve made significant performance improvements to impatient-mode since I recorded this initial demo. Here is an example of refreshing the CSS on the Clojurescript benchmark site. And this demonstrates live editing with 3 browsers at the same time.

impatient-mode can be installed from MELPA.

impatient-mode

See your HTML rendered as you type it!

My frequent co-conspirator, Chris Wellons, created a HTTP server that runs entirely within Emacs. He made some updates recently that inspired me to create impatient-mode.

impatient-mode uses Chris’s HTTP Server to serve the Emacs buffer of your choice. impatient-mode serves up this buffer along with a thin shim page that makes the browser automatically refresh itself from your buffer as you type.

Here’s a video of it in action!