From c6a396b5c7221bfe89e56d29d707b50bfb10a047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Koroluk <koroluka@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:10:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(livereload): ignore api routes and specific non-html
 files

closes #1636, #1764
---
 app/templates/server/config/express.js | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/templates/server/config/express.js b/app/templates/server/config/express.js
index 009400b5e..eeca74e6e 100644
--- a/app/templates/server/config/express.js
+++ b/app/templates/server/config/express.js
@@ -80,7 +80,13 @@ export default function(app) {
   }
 
   if ('development' === env) {
-    app.use(require('connect-livereload')());
+    app.use(require('connect-livereload')({
+      ignore: [
+        /^\/api\/(.*)/,
+        /\.js(\?.*)?$/, /\.css(\?.*)?$/, /\.svg(\?.*)?$/, /\.ico(\?.*)?$/, /\.woff(\?.*)?$/,
+        /\.png(\?.*)?$/, /\.jpg(\?.*)?$/, /\.jpeg(\?.*)?$/, /\.gif(\?.*)?$/, /\.pdf(\?.*)?$/
+      ]
+    }));
   }
 
   if ('development' === env || 'test' === env) {