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entr
- Entr – tool for watching files and running commands
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Meet entr, the standalone file watcher
entr ("Event Notify Test Runner"; GitHub), is a command-line tool written by Eric Radman that allows running arbitrary commands whenever files change.
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
I use something very similar on https://lunar.fyi and https://lowtechguys.com but I wouldn’t call this “simple” anymore.
They use Jinja templating, I prefer Slim (https://github.com/slim-template/slim#syntax-example) which has a more Pythonic syntax (there is plim [0] in Python for that)
I use Tailwind as well for terse styling and fast experimentation (allows me to write a darkMode-aware and responsive 100 line CSS in a single line with about 10 classes)
For interaction I can write CoffeeScript directly in the page [1] and have it compiled by plim.
I run a Caddy static server [2] and use Syncthing [3] to have every file save deployed instantly to my Hetzner server.
I use entr [4] and livereloadx [5] to rebuild the pages and do hot reload on file save. All the commands are managed in a simple Makefile [6]
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You can already see how the footnotes take up a large chunk of this comment, this is not my idea of simple. Sure, the end result is readable static HTML and I never have to fight obscure React errors, but it’s a high effort setup for starters.
Simple for me would be: write markdown files for pages, a simple CSS for general styling (should be optional), click to deploy on my domain. Images should automatically be resized to multiple sizes and optimized, videos re-encoded for smaller filesize etc.
I have mostly implemented that for myself (https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog...) but it feels fragile. I’d rather pay for a professional solution.
[0] https://plim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[1] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/src/rcmd...
[2] https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line#caddy-file-server
[3] https://syncthing.net
[4] https://github.com/eradman/entr
[5] https://nitoyon.github.io/livereloadx/
[6] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/Makefile
- How to start a Go project in 2023
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[Guide] A Tour Through the Python Framework Galaxy: Discovering the Stars
Try entr for fast reloading. Another one is hupper.
- Use entr when working on you rice for auto config refreshing
- The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe
- How do you develop cloud-native applications locally on Kubernetes?
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What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?
entr
- Test driven development is adhd dream
dapr
- Dapr: Microservices API
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Interesting projects using WebAssembly
The following two examples are open-source projects maintained by Fermyon with contributions from companies like Microsoft and SUSE. The first is Spin, which allows us to use WebAssembly to create Serverless applications. The second, SpinKube, combines some of the topics I'm most excited about these days: WebAssembly and Kubernetes Operators :) The official website says, "By running applications in the Wasm abstraction layer, SpinKube offers developers a more powerful, efficient, and scalable way to optimize application delivery on Kubernetes." By the way, this post shows how to integrate SpinKube with Dapr, another technology I'm very interested in, and I should write some posts soon.
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The Ambassador Pattern
Speaking of this has anyone had much experience with Dapr (https://dapr.io/) before?
I always thought this was a particularly interesting approach from Microsoft where they use this pattern to essentially take the complexity of micro services and instead try and keep it as simple as a normal .NET application but (and I think this is the clever part) in both a vendor and language neutral way.
But all of a sudden it means you can start removing all kinds of cruft and random SDKs from your codebase and push almost all of your interactions with the outside world into something like this .
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Comparing Azure Functions vs Dapr on Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps hosting of Azure Functions is a way to host Azure Functions directly in Container Apps - additionally to App Service with and without containers. This offering also adds some Container Apps built-in capabilities like the Dapr microservices framework which would allow for mixing microservices workloads on the same environment with Functions.
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Episode 150: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft
Having containers is nice but everything (well ... nearly everything 😉) gets better with Dapr as an outstanding tool for app development in the container-based area. Here we go what might be worth a look:
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Using DARP in production?
Anyone using or planing to use darp Distributed application platform runtime as a microservices platform? https://dapr.io/
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Ensuring Seamless Operations: Troubleshooting and Resolving Dapr Certificate Expiry
A CNCF project, the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) provides APIs that simplify microservice connectivity. Whether your communication pattern is service to service invocation or pub/sub messaging, Dapr helps you write resilient and secured microservices. Essentially, it provides a new way to build microservices by using the reusable blocks implemented as sidecars.
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Understanding the Dapr workflow engine and workflow patterns in .NET (1hr webinar)
Dapr is a runtime that implements common patterns such as pub/sub, state storage, etc. It runs as a sidecar to your app. Your app then interfaces with it using an sdk or http calls to use said patterns instead of implementing those patterns directly yourself. Seems pretty cool to me, but you can find out more at https://dapr.io/.
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Is Dapr actually used by anyone?
- Over 21k stars on GitHub, see the core repo and devstats.
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Modular Architecture Design question | Re-using modules in multiple applications
I would like to build modules, either in a modular monolith style, or in a microservice style using DAPR and/or Tye.
What are some alternatives?
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET
nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-starter - A starting point for building an iOS, Android, and Progressive Web App with Tailwind CSS, React w/ Next.js, Ionic Framework, and Capacitor
camel-k - Apache Camel K is a lightweight integration platform, born on Kubernetes, with serverless superpowers
modd - A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes
tye - Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.
swc-node - Faster ts-node without typecheck
OpenFaaS - OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
air - ☁️ Live reload for Go apps
Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
vim-test - Run your tests at the speed of thought
NServiceBus - Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET