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kushdilip
kushdilip

Reputation: 7906

How do I run livereload server on localhost after running Ionic serve command?

I recently started learning Ionic Framework. You can use Ionic serve command inside the project to run a livereload server. Once in a while it asked whether server should run on localhost or system ip. I chose second option. Now It doesn't ask anything and directly runs on system's ip.

How do reset this automatic behaviour?

I tried looking into serve.js file in ionic-cli project but no luck.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 17186

Answers (3)

deb2fast
deb2fast

Reputation: 1000

like @user3110357 points out you can just type ionic address command and you get the option to select your IP address again.

OR

you can explicitly select your address and port when you run ionic serve

by using the --address and --port options. Like this:

ionic serve --address IP_address --port port

example : ionic serve --address 192.168.1.129 --port 8101

Things to note

  • If you do not provide a port option with --address the default port(8100) is used instead.
  • Specifying address and port will only change the settings for that session. if you need to override saved settings, you should probably use the ionic address command instead.

Upvotes: 5

Kwoxford
Kwoxford

Reputation: 614

It's not necessary to edit the code. You can switch between addresses with the command ionic address. You'll then get options like this:

Please select which address to use by entering its number from the list below:
 1) 10.0.1.7 (en1)
 2) localhost

Upvotes: 50

kushdilip
kushdilip

Reputation: 7906

Found a workaround. I am using this method on ubuntu so paths may be different for other os.

Go to /usr/lib/node_modules/ionic/lib/ionic

Open serve.js with root user.

Find function called IonicTask.prototype.getAddress

Inside this function the value of variable isAddressCmd is false. Set it to true

self.isAddressCmd = false;

save the file. Now run Ionic serve for your project. This time it will ask for localhost vs ip again.

After this remove the newly added code from serve.js otherwise ionic serve won't work.

Upvotes: 2

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