workstation VS modd

My workstation setup, both for Linux and MacOS, is in the following repository: https://github.com/sirikon/workstation

https://github.com/sirikon/workstation/blob/master/src/cli/c...

For Linux, it can install and configure everything I need when launched on a clean Debian installation. apt repositories, pins and packages; X11, i3, networking, terminal, symlinking configuration of many programs to Dropbox or the repository itself... The idea is to have my whole setup with a single command.

For Mac, it installs programs using brew and sets some configurations. Mac isn't my daily driver so the scripts aren't as complete.

Also there are scripts for the terminal to make my life easier. Random stuff like killing any gradle process in the background, upgrading programs that aren't packetized on APT, backing up savegames from my Anbernic, etc. https://github.com/sirikon/workstation/tree/master/src/shell

And more programs for common use, like screenshots, copying Stripe test cards into the clipboard, launching android emulators without opening Android Studio, etc. https://github.com/sirikon/workstation/tree/master/src/bin

Modd is a library that makes hot reloading possible in Go applications. To use it, install it on your machine using the command below:

There's also modd[0] which allows for many file watch pattern -> command combos to easily be defined & run simultaneously from a modd.conf file.

[0]https://github.com/cortesi/modd

i was using cortesi/modd for this while using docker. Since I change to Rancher with dockerd i wasn’t able to get live reloading working again, i also tried air but no luck.. out of curiosity did anyone have a similar issue?

Interesting. I've been using https://github.com/cortesi/modd for this for a while but I'll check this project out.

me likes: https://github.com/cortesi/modd A little more flexible for various files

I use a somewhat similar approach for Pirsch [0]. It's build so that I can run it locally, basically as a fully fledged staging environment. Databases run in Docker, everything else is started using modd [1]. This has proven to be a good setup for quick iterations and testing. I can quickly run all tests on my laptop (Go and TypeScript) and even import data from production to see if the statistics are correct for real data. Of course, there are some things that need to be mocked, like automated backups, but so fare it turns out to work really well.

You can find more on our blog [2] if you would like to know more.

[0] https://pirsch.io

[1] https://github.com/cortesi/modd

[2] https://pirsch.io/blog/techstack/