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

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [June 3, 2017, 12:45am 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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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-faster-way-to-develop-plugin-theme-css-js-e-g-livereload/63859/10 "2017-06-05T14:37:11Z")

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I just confirmed that live-reload works fine with the plugin you linked me.

The issue is vagrant. Vagrant mounts stuff in a terrible way and breaks inotify/kqueue file change notification. This leaves you stuck with all file watching broken from what I can see.

I recommend you avoid vagrant and just do a local Discourse install.

For my test,

1. I checked out your plugin
2. Ran `bin/puma`
3. Edited header.scss and added `body { background-color: red !important; }
4. The background turned red, no need to reload the page or anything.

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