how to get the instance from node and trigger a reload?

[stratboy]

Hi! I'm trying to reach the instance created in webpack config from a tasks.js small node script, and then trigger a manual reload.

This is my current code in tasks.js, which I run directly with node after executing webpack:

const webpackConfig = require('./webpack.config');
const browsersync = require('browser-sync');
const bs = browsersync.get('bs-webpack-plugin');
bs.reload(); 

bs does exists, but reload() does nothing.

How to? Is it anyway possible?

Thank you

[Va1]

hey @stratboy

i am not sure and i do not have a project at hand to verify this, but back in the day i used to do it via callback option described in the docs:

const BrowserSyncPlugin = require('browser-sync-webpack-plugin')

module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [
    new BrowserSyncPlugin(
      // BrowserSync options
      {
        // ...
      },
      // plugin options
      {
        callback: (bs) => {
          // bs arg is the browsersync instance the plugin initiated
        }
      }
    )
  ]
}