How To Reload Only A Userscript, I.e. Without Reloading The Page?

I'm working on a Greasemonkey userscript for a web app that needs configuration steps before I can actually test my userscript's functionality. So every time I reload the page –

Solution 1:

Might want to have alook into AJAX for this then, it's a tool that interacts with databases without refreshing the webpage. I.E - dynamic webpages.

Might help, just do a general google browse and see if it applies.

https://www.w3schools.com/xml/ajax_intro.asp

Solution 2:

Generally not feasible.

As one of the collaborators remarked on this issue in GreaseMonkey's GitHub repo, almost all scripts mutate the page in ways that makes repeated script execution problematic.

I overlooked this fact in my original question – my script does mutate the page in ways that makes repeated script execution problematic.

If you want to implement script reload, and you find a feasible method to do that:

• make sure you carefully evaluate what effect will it have on the page, and
• implement clean-up code to prepare the page for the repeated execution of your script.