Audible Bell on Live/Hot Reload

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Feature Proposal

An optional audible bell, either in Terminal, or browser, when live/hot -reload is triggered. In-browser preferred as it's the last part of the live/hot reload daisy-chain and therefore would give more contextual information about the operation of hot/live reloading.

Feature Use Case

I'll be using "HTML theming" to describe the application of stylesheets, scripts and other resources to HTML documents.

When IT-professionals with differing specializations collaborate together on HTML document theming, their workflows and requirements towards a build/development environment may differ. Many tools concerned with HTML theming are optimized for a multi-monitor setup and graphical IDEs. I don't see why that should become canon.

Of course, it is advisable to use a multi-monitor setup for certain tasks, such as where CSS media queries become relevant during development, but that's a small fraction of the overall development work.

In order to verify that live/hot reload has been triggered, you currently need to check the logs of the webpack serve terminal command output and you need to see a browser window indicating a reload in order to verify that a watched file actually triggered a change, and is applied to the served HTML document. Without a multi-monitor setup, this becomes very tedious for no reason, since I need to take the extra window-switching into account, as terminal and browser window are not side-by-side, when verifying the logs have changed and browser window reloaded.

[alexander-akait]

This is the first time in so many years of programming that I hear such a request for improvement, PR welcome

[oxbqkwwxfrqccwtg]

Allright. I'll conceptualize an implementation in the next couple of weeks, will update this issue then, before creating a PR.