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# ElectronJS Reloader
+
+It is a simple method to restart your application.
+
+Features:
+
+- Separate watchers in main and renderer processes.
+- No magic, you necessary specify path files.
+- You can use hooks before reload.
+- Will catch error, if you want.
+
+## Example
+
+First, you should install this package:
+
+```bash
+# Yarn
+yarn add electron-reloader
+
+# NPM
+npm install --save electron-reloader
+```
+
+Next, you should create watchers:
+
+```javascript
+import { mainReloader, rendererReloader } from 'electron-reloader';
+import { app } from 'electron';
+import path from 'path';
+
+const mainFile = path.join(app.getAppPath(), 'dist', 'main.js');
+const rendererFile = path.join(app.getAppPath(), 'dist', 'renderer.js');
+
+mainReloader(mainFile, undefined, (error, path) => {
+ console.log("It is a main's process hook!");
+});
+
+rendererReloader(rendererFile, undefined, (error, path) => {
+ console.log("It is a renderer's process hook!");
+});
+```
+
+[Do you want to example application?](example/application)
+
+## Documentation
+
+### mainReloader( paths, ignored, handler, options ) => void
+
+If this is method detects changes, it will restart the application.
+
+| Argument | Type | Requered | Description |
+| --------- | ---------------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------- |
+| `paths` | `string` or `string[]` | `true` | Paths to files and dirs to recursively watch. |
+| `ignored` | `RegExp` or `RegExp[]` | `false` | RegExp to file or dirs to ignore. |
+| `handler` | `function` | `false` | Callback function to create hooks. |
+| `options` | `object` | `false` | Additional options to [chokidar]. |
+
+[chokidar]: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/tree/a8f250e16cbef6d87d30639f3fce1299c46a40cd#persistence
+
+### rendererReloader( paths, ignored, handler, options ) => void
+
+If this is method detects changes, it will restart the application's windows.
+
+| Argument | Type | Requered | Description |
+| --------- | ---------------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------- |
+| `paths` | `string` or `string[]` | `true` | Paths to files and dirs to recursively watch. |
+| `ignored` | `RegExp` or `RegExp[]` | `false` | RegExp to file or dirs to ignore. |
+| `handler` | `function` | `false` | Callback function to create hooks. |
+| `options` | `object` | `false` | Additional options to [chokidar]. |
+
+[chokidar]: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/tree/a8f250e16cbef6d87d30639f3fce1299c46a40cd#persistence
+
+## License
+
+<img width="256px" alt="MIT License" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/valentineus/valentineus.github.io/master/assets/images/7d05cad0-d553-42c7-be1f-7007926ba720.png" />
+
+[MIT](LICENSE.txt).
+Copyright (c)
+[Valentin Popov](https://valentineus.link/).