rerun
Restarts an app when the filesystem changes. Uses growl and FSEventStream if on OS X. (by alexch)
watchexec
Executes commands in response to file modifications (by watchexec)
| rerun | watchexec | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 20 | |
| 967 | 4,893 | |
| - | 3.3% | |
| 0.0 | 9.1 | |
| over 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
| Ruby | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rerun
Posts with mentions or reviews of rerun.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-16.
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Web Server Kill Process on Ports
Live or hot reloading all possible things makes me happy, so I was glad to implement rerun on my server immediately after learning about it.
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Continuous test runner?
Rerun if they don't.
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Is using the gem Guard still state of the art in TDD with Ruby?
I use rerun to rerun all tests on file change (retest gem posted elsewhere can be smarter about which tests to run). Rerun also lets me relaunch a development app on changes.
- Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers
watchexec
Posts with mentions or reviews of watchexec.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-01.
- Watchexec
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Watchexec ignore directory?
Hi, I am using Watchexec (https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec/releases) to monitor folder changes, but I want to exclude some folders. What parameter should I use to perform the route exclusions?
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How to automatically extract all zip files downloaded to certain directory?
Use https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
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My first actual Rust program: Cloak, a simple app to search and watch directories to automatically hide files and directories
There's something similar to this called watchexec, which you can have a look at https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
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Turbowatch – Extremely fast alternative to Nodemon
Or use watchexec which will do 95% of what you need and you're not tied to nodejs.
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What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
watchexec
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is there a plugin to run any file (.py .js .java etc.) and display the output?
I use watchexec to automatically run the code when saved, you should customise this to your liking.
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[Paid Bounty-$20 in Bitcoin!] Persistent - Watchfolder() dir, if files contains word "apple" in name, make file Read only.
OTOH PowerShell will not keep watching and is one of the requirements. In the past I've successfully used watchexecrepo and inotifywaitrepo.
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How to automatically run a command when directory updates?
I prefer watchexec as it's cross-platform.
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What is the most underrated tool you encountered ?
Not specifically for frontend but a handy tool for quickly setting up auto-runners, auto-testers, auto-linters, auto-formattere etc etc. watchexec
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rerun and watchexec you can also consider the following projects:
entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change
fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor
watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.
up - Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
fswatch - A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.
vim-test - Run your tests at the speed of thought
systemd-manager
dotfiles
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils