# livereload mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für livereload in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:livereload
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install livereload
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:livereload
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/livereload>
- **Version:** 2.7.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Local web server in Python
- **Homepage:** <https://livereload.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lepture/python-livereload>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://livereload.readthedocs.io/en/stable>
- **Lizenz:** BSD-3-Clause
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/43/6e/f2748665839812a9bbe5c75d3f983edbf3ab05fa5cd2f7c2f36fffdf65bd/livereload-2.7.1.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-15T10:20:20-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- livereload (cli)
- livereload (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- python@3.14

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 2.7.1
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-15
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://livereload.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Python LiveReload is a Python implementation of the LiveReload development workflow: watch local files, serve a development site, and tell the browser to refresh when assets change. It brought the LiveReload idea into Python web stacks and static documentation workflows.

### Projektgeschichte

The python-livereload repository was created on May 3, 2012. Author Hsiaoming Yang wrote in 2013 that the first version was released on May 4, 2012, and that the project was later reshaped around a simpler server/library model.

Version 2.0 changed the tool's direction. The author described it as more of a library than an application, with compilers and a standalone command-line tool removed at that point so that livereload could focus on serving reload notifications and running shell commands supplied by users. The stable documentation later shows the command-line utility restored for starting a server in a directory.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

LiveReload as a workflow spread across browser extensions, JavaScript clients, Ruby tools, Grunt watchers, and Python tools. The livereload-js project lists python-livereload among available servers for the LiveReload protocol.

Within Python, adoption centered on developers who wanted live refresh for static files, Sphinx docs, Flask, Bottle, and Django without adopting a full JavaScript dev-server stack.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The documented CLI starts a server for a watched directory and listens on port 35729 for LiveReload browser integrations. The Python API exposes Server.watch for files, directories, and glob patterns, and can run shell commands such as rebuilding CSS or Sphinx documentation before reloading.

Framework integrations cover Django management commands and simple WSGI wrapping for Flask and Bottle, which made it useful for small Python web projects and documentation sites.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The Homebrew formula is notable because a Python web-development helper is packaged as a system command, not just as a PyPI library. It sits in the older generation of live-reload tooling before Vite-style JavaScript dev servers became the default for many front-end projects.

It is also a small example of protocol compatibility mattering in packaging: the Python server, livereload.js, browser extensions, and the conventional port 35729 all have to line up for the developer experience to feel automatic.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012-05-03: The lepture/python-livereload GitHub repository was created.
- 2012-05-04: The author identified this as the first Python LiveReload release date.
- 2013: The documentation copyright and author blog reflect the project's early Python 2.x-era documentation and redesign.
- 2013: Version 2.0 was described by the author as a library-focused redesign.
- 2024-12-18: The GitHub repository listed v2.7.1 as a release.

### Related projects

- Related projects include the original LiveReload app, livereload-js, browser extensions, guard-livereload, rack-livereload, grunt-contrib-watch, Sphinx, Flask, Bottle, and Django.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/lepture/python-livereload>
- <https://github.com/lepture/python-livereload>
- <https://github.com/livereload/livereload-js>
- <https://lepture.com/en/2013/new-life-of-livereload>
- <https://livereload.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** livereload
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 2
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


## Verwandte Links

- [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [vite](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/vite/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dev-server, developer-tools, web-development.
- [angular-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/angular-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development.
- [css-crush](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/css-crush/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development.
- [gatsby-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/gatsby-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development.
- [gwt](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/gwt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development.
- [nuxi](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/nuxi/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development.
- [templ](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/templ/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development.
- [vite-plus](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/vite-plus/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development.
- [livereload](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/npm/livereload/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, development, live, live-reload, livereload.
- [polyserve](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/npm/polyserve/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: browser, cli, dev, developer, developer-tools.
- [livereload](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/npm/livereload/) - Same normalized package name in another local ecosystem.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/livereload.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/livereload.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
