Demo of Restarting php pages with Express and Socket.IO

Start

# Use nodemon to watch php files
npm dev
# Create a standalone php server
npm php

For any pages that you wish to reload on change, add this block to end of php file

<?php include('restart/restartBlock.php') ?>

// OR 

<script src="restart/socket.io.js"></script>
<script src="restart/restart.js"></script>

Standalone projects

Copy restart folder in public to target

Install nodemon, express and socket.io

yarn add nodemon express socket.io

Scripts to run

# Activate Nodemon to watch the server
yarn nodemon --config public/restart/server.js
# Create local php server
php -S localhost:8080 -t public

Link socket.io.js (Socket.IO client) and restart.js (small script for restart)