LiveSync issues with dev-sass

[NordlingDev]

Platform: iOS
TNS: 2.5.1

When livesyncing, the prepare-before and prepare-after hooks make the livesync refresh the app twice (or sometimes more). This makes it rather difficult to work with since it refreshes the app too often between the syncs. Is this possible to fix or get rid off?

[Liooo]

same here, compile runs many times everytime I make a change

[NordlingDev]

@Liooo Yeah. In addition, after a couples saves, the livesync may have 5 processes running at the same time. Meaning, everything I do is multiplied by 5.

[cookingfox]

Same here, of course it's nice to have livesync refresh after changing .scss files, however this causes some looped operations where livesync first gets triggered by changing the .scss and a second time by the generated/updated .css file.

[toddanglin]

There are a number of LiveSync issues with the 2.5.x versions of the NativeScript CLI. The latest version of this plugin has been patched to work with the upcoming NativeScript 3.0.0, and remains backwards compatible (with LiveSync support) in versions 2.4.x (and earlier) of the {N} CLI.

I'd suggest either downgrading your CLI to 2.4.x or going ahead and upgrading to the 3.0.0 RC.

To use the latest version of this plugin for now, do this:

$ tns plugin remove nativescript-dev-sass
$ tns plugin add nativescript-dev-sass@rc --save-dev

Let me know if this works for you.

[ManuelSch]

I'm still experiencing this exact issue. Any suggestions how to solve it?
Since css in nativescript is (at least to me) mostly try-and-error the double-reload problem makes styling real tiring...