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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
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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?
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- Test driven development is adhd dream
inotify-tools
- Suite for keeping track of file system changes
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Ask r/kubernetes: What are you working on this week?
I've discovered inotify-tools and lsyncd as options and POC proves that it's possible to detect filesystem changes on a shared emptydir in a pod. Now it's just time to truly prove it out.
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Here's the tool that automatically restarting your process when file changes in the selected directory
How's it different from inotify (or inotify-tools)?
- Using NFS in a distributed synchronous processing
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I made a UNIX-style program to run commands every time a file is updated!
I use inotfy-tools within a makefile to watch my source tex files and retrigger a recompile while manuscripting.
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How to add a cronjob that executes a command whenever an external device is plugged in, not base on time?
maybe this may help you: https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/wiki
- Dear AWS - Please stop your VPN Client from fucking with my networking settings
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Stop a container from another one
I've found a library which reacts to filesystem events (https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/wiki) and I think it could be used for that.
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Do you use perl? Should I bother with it?
inotify-tools is available in arch (community repo), provides inotifywait and inotifywatch, hope that's close enough
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Is there something that monitors your code as you're working and re-executes it on the command line every time it notices a change?
inotify-tools should be able to help, you can use inotifywait to watch for file system changes in a directory and run a command when something changes.
What are some alternatives?
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
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.
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
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager
modd - A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes
GlusterFS - Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
swc-node - Faster ts-node without typecheck
tini - A tiny but valid `init` for containers
air - ☁️ Live reload for Go apps
kfmon - Kute File Monitor, an inotify-based Launcher for Kobo devices
vim-test - Run your tests at the speed of thought
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming