diff --git a/src/zona/data/server/inject.js b/src/zona/data/server/inject.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..550830f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/zona/data/server/inject.js
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+const ws = new WebSocket("__SOCKET_ADDRESS_");
+ws.onmessage = event => {
+    if (event.data === "reload") {
+        location.reload();
+    }
+};
diff --git a/src/zona/server.py b/src/zona/server.py
index fa0c033..b2e0a64 100644
--- a/src/zona/server.py
+++ b/src/zona/server.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from rich import print
 from watchdog.events import FileSystemEvent, FileSystemEventHandler
 from watchdog.observers import Observer
 
+from zona import util
 from zona.builder import ZonaBuilder
 from zona.log import get_logger
 from zona.websockets import WebSocketServer
@@ -22,16 +23,16 @@ logger = get_logger()
 
 def make_reload_script(host: str, port: int) -> str:
     """Generates the JavaScript that must be injected into HTML pages for the live reloading to work."""
-    return f"""
-<script>
-const ws = new WebSocket("ws://{host}:{port}");
-ws.onmessage = event => {{
-    if (event.data === "reload") {{
-        location.reload();
-    }}
-}};
-</script>
-"""
+    js = util.get_resource("server/inject.js").contents
+    js = util.minify_js(js)
+    address = f"ws://{host}:{port}"
+    for placeholder, value in (("__SOCKET_ADDRESS_", address),):
+        if placeholder not in js:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"{placeholder} missing from reload script template!"
+            )
+        js = js.replace(placeholder, value)
+    return f"<script>{js}</script>"
 
 
 def make_handler_class(script: str):
diff --git a/src/zona/util.py b/src/zona/util.py
index 7e80500..2d5c514 100644
--- a/src/zona/util.py
+++ b/src/zona/util.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import fnmatch
+import re
 import string
 from importlib import resources
 from importlib.resources.abc import Traversable
@@ -12,6 +13,15 @@ class ZonaResource(NamedTuple):
     contents: str
 
 
+def get_resource(path: str) -> ZonaResource:
+    """Load the packaged resource in data/path"""
+    file = resources.files("zona").joinpath("data", path)
+    if file.is_file():
+        return ZonaResource(name=path, contents=file.read_text())
+    else:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"{path} is not a valid Zona resource!")
+
+
 def get_resources(subdir: str) -> list[ZonaResource]:
     """Load the packaged resources in data/subdir"""
     out: list[ZonaResource] = []
@@ -65,11 +75,28 @@ def normalize_url(url: str) -> str:
     return url
 
 
-def should_ignore(
-    path: Path, patterns: list[str], base: Path
-) -> bool:
+def should_ignore(path: Path, patterns: list[str], base: Path) -> bool:
     rel_path = path.relative_to(base)
     return any(
-        fnmatch.fnmatch(str(rel_path), pattern)
-        for pattern in patterns
+        fnmatch.fnmatch(str(rel_path), pattern) for pattern in patterns
     )
+
+
+MINIFY_JS_PATTERN = re.compile(
+    r"""
+    //.*?$    |
+    /\*.*?\*/ |
+    \s+
+    """,
+    re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL | re.VERBOSE,
+)
+
+
+def minify_js(js: str) -> str:
+    """Naively minifies JavaScript by stripping comments and whitespace."""
+    return MINIFY_JS_PATTERN.sub(
+        # replace whitespace with single space,
+        # strip comments
+        lambda m: " " if m.group(0).isspace() else "",
+        js,
+    ).strip()