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| autotest | entr | |
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| 1 | 47 | |
| 120 | 4,123 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 6.8 | |
| over 11 years ago | 2 months ago | |
| Ruby | C | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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autotest
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
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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
What are some alternatives?
bazel-watcher - Tools for building Bazel targets when source files change.
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
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
modd - A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes
swc-node - Faster ts-node without typecheck
air - ☁️ Live reload for Go apps
vim-test - Run your tests at the speed of thought
integresql - IntegreSQL manages isolated PostgreSQL databases for your integration tests.
inotify-tools - inotify-tools is a C library and a set of command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify.
volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡
mercury - Convert Jupyter Notebooks to Web Apps
rerun - Visualize streams of multimodal data. Fast, easy to use, and simple to integrate. Built in Rust using egui.