# Is there a faster way to develop plugin theme CSS / JS (e.g. livereload)?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [2017 年 6 月 3 日午前 12:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-faster-way-to-develop-plugin-theme-css-js-e-g-livereload/63859 "2017-06-03T00:45:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [2017 年 6 月 3 日午前 12:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-faster-way-to-develop-plugin-theme-css-js-e-g-livereload/63859/1 "2017-06-03T00:45:50Z")

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Hey there,

I’m trying develop a custom theme/plugin which will add a few additional templates and some general styling to discourse.

In pursuit of this, it would be great to get some kind of livereload/auto-injected CSS action going on, as reloading the page and wating 2s to notice I have made a typo is slowly adding up to quite a significant chunk of time. 🙂

It seems like the [recommendation is to use autopec](https://meta.discourse.org/t/development-mode-super-slow/2179/65), but I’m a little confused as to how this is supposed to work.

I have discourse setup and running locally using vagrant. I’ve ssh’d into the box and can run the server, see the admin page etc.

Should I run autospec and then start the server? or vice-versa? Will this effectively work to live reload the CSS so that I don’t have to refresh the app? Or am I just completely off-base here?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 🙂

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