gaper vs devd

gaper

Builds and restarts a Go project when it crashes or some watched file changes (by maxcnunes)

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devd

A local webserver for developers (by cortesi)

Server Applications Webserver reverse-proxies Livereload front-end-development

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gaper		devd
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-	Mentions	9
80	Stars	3,393
-	Growth	-
2.1	Activity	0.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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devd

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Creating your own PDF templates (not page templates!)
3 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 28 Jun 2023

Your technique is one I would turn towards as a developer who understands HTML/CSS flow so much better than I do any typesetting tool. I actually use a very similar technique for managing my CV and generating invoices for clients; I have a little "static site" generator I've written that takes JSON, throws it through a templating engine, and spits out HTML files. I then host a server in the output folder and print-to-pdf directly from there. This approach seems quite rare; I don't think enough people appreciate just how flexible CSS is or its support for common print-related tasks.
Live preview of vanilla CSS as I change it?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2023

There are plenty of solutions to that specific problem. Nowadays, I only work on Nuxt/Next/Astro projects that come with hot reload out of the box so I don't have a need for it anymore, but I have used https://github.com/cortesi/devd a lot in the past, with much success.
A no-install solution would be to use the "workspace" feature of Chrome's Dev Tools:
1. Open your .html file in Chrome.
2. Open the Dev Tools.
3. In the "Sources" tab, activate the "Filesystem" sub-tab.
4. Click on "+ Add folder to workspace" and choose the directory containing your .html and .css files.
5. Edit the .css file with autocompletion and live preview.
6. Save your work so that it is synchronized with your filesystem.
In action: https://i.imgur.com/slcSt9X.gif
What is the Go equivalent of Node http-server?
5 projects | /r/golang | 12 Feb 2023

Try https://github.com/cortesi/devd
Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2022
How do you live reload html pages in development?
4 projects | /r/golang | 14 Mar 2022

This pair of tools do both front-end and back-end live reloading with a small amount of config: https://github.com/cortesi/modd https://github.com/cortesi/devd
Big list of HTTP static server one-liners
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2021
Just-In-Time: The Next Generation of Tailwind CSS – Tailwind CSS
3 projects | /r/programming | 24 Mar 2021
Go 1.16 Release Notes
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2021

In tandem with https://github.com/cortesi/devd I've found it a good setup for web development.
Modd watches file changes and rebuilds, while Devd enables livereload, letting me make changes in my text editor and then see the rendered changes in the browser, side-by-side, in near real-time.
This is for go web development but I'm pretty sure these two tools are language-agnostic.
Asset won’t load. Help?
1 project | /r/phaser | 1 Feb 2021

My favourite is https://github.com/cortesi/devd

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gaper and devd you can also consider the following projects:

mimetype - A fast Golang library for media type and file extension detection, based on magic numbers

goproxy - 🦁 goproxy is a proxy server which can forward http or https requests to remote servers./ goproxy 是一个反向代理服务器，支持转发 http/https 请求。

goreleaser - Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible

lets-proxy2 - Reverse proxy with automatically obtains TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt

goproxy - 🔥 Proxy is a high performance HTTP(S) proxies, SOCKS5 proxies,WEBSOCKET, TCP, UDP proxy server implemented by golang. Now, it supports chain-style proxies,nat forwarding in different lan,TCP/UDP port forwarding, SSH forwarding.Proxy是golang实现的高性能http,https,websocket,tcp,socks5代理服务器,支持内网穿透,链式代理,通讯加密,智能HTTP,SOCKS5代理,黑白名单,限速,限流量,限连接数,跨平台,KCP支持,认证API。

etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

apex

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

Ponzu - Headless CMS with automatic JSON API. Featuring auto-HTTPS from Let's Encrypt, HTTP/2 Server Push, and flexible server framework written in Go.

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

algernon - Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support

minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure