Only re-render the view(s) you're working on

Hugo already, in its server mode,  support partial rebuilds. To put it simply: If you change `about.md`, only that content page is read and processed, then Hugo does some processing (taxonomies etc.) and the full site is rendered.
This commit covers the rendering part: We now only re-render the pages you work on, i.e. the last n pages you watched in the browser (which obviously also includes the  page in the example above).

To be more specific: When you are running the hugo server in watch (aka. livereload) mode, and change a template or a content file, then we do a partial re-rendering of the following:

* The current content page (if it is a content change)
* The home page
* Up to the last 10 pages you visited on the site.

This should in most cases be enough, but if you navigate to something completely different, you may see stale content. Doing an edit will then refresh that page.

Note that this feature is enabled by default. To turn it off, run `hugo server --disableFastRender`.

Fixes #3962
See  #1643

commands/server.go

@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ var (
 	liveReloadPort    int
 	serverWatch       bool
 	noHTTPCache       bool
+
+	disableFastRender bool
 )
 
 var serverCmd = &cobra.Command{
@@ -94,6 +96,8 @@ func init() {
 	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&disableLiveReload, "disableLiveReload", false, "watch without enabling live browser reload on rebuild")
 	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&navigateToChanged, "navigateToChanged", false, "navigate to changed content file on live browser reload")
 	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&renderToDisk, "renderToDisk", false, "render to Destination path (default is render to memory & serve from there)")
+	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&disableFastRender, "disableFastRender", false, "enables full re-renders on changes")
+
 	serverCmd.Flags().String("memstats", "", "log memory usage to this file")
 	serverCmd.Flags().String("meminterval", "100ms", "interval to poll memory usage (requires --memstats), valid time units are \"ns\", \"us\" (or \"µs\"), \"ms\", \"s\", \"m\", \"h\".")
 
@@ -120,6 +124,10 @@ func server(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		c.Set("navigateToChanged", navigateToChanged)
 	}
 
+	if cmd.Flags().Changed("disableFastRender") {
+		c.Set("disableFastRender", disableFastRender)
+	}
+
 	if serverWatch {
 		c.Set("watch", true)
 	}
@@ -214,12 +222,27 @@ func (c *commandeer) serve(port int) {
 
 	httpFs := afero.NewHttpFs(c.Fs.Destination)
 	fs := filesOnlyFs{httpFs.Dir(c.PathSpec().AbsPathify(c.Cfg.GetString("publishDir")))}
+
+	doLiveReload := !buildWatch && !c.Cfg.GetBool("disableLiveReload")
+	fastRenderMode := doLiveReload && !c.Cfg.GetBool("disableFastRender")
+
+	if fastRenderMode {
+		jww.FEEDBACK.Println("Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender")
+	}
+
 	decorate := func(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
 		return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			if noHTTPCache {
 				w.Header().Set("Cache-Control", "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0")
 				w.Header().Set("Pragma", "no-cache")
 			}
+
+			if fastRenderMode {
+				p := r.URL.Path
+				if strings.HasSuffix(p, "/") || strings.HasSuffix(p, "html") || strings.HasSuffix(p, "htm") {
+					c.visitedURLs.Add(p)
+				}
+			}
 			h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
 		})
 	}