watchr
watchr - file watcher in Go that triggers predefined actions on detected files modifications (by bartekrutkowski)
lrt
lrt is a live reloading tool for go http servers (by superhuman)
| watchr | lrt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 3 | 17 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 3 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
watchr
Posts with mentions or reviews of watchr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-16.
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Go 1.16 Release Notes
Shameless self plug, but I've had that itch and decided to scratch it with a tool[0] that would be universal and not limited to Go - albeit written in it ;)
[0] https://github.com/bartekrutkowski/watchr
lrt
Posts with mentions or reviews of lrt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-30.
- Air – Live reload when developing with Go
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Go 1.16 Release Notes
To do this well (for servers, which is the most common case) you need to keep the port open (and delay requests while recompilation is in progress) or clients can see transient errors. So it's probably not a language level concern, but a protocol level one (it's very solvable for HTTP for example).
I built https://github.com/superhuman/lrt which tries to solve this problem in a go-like way (no configuration required, minimal log noise, and reliability/simplicity as the primary design goals) for Superhuman.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing watchr and lrt you can also consider the following projects:
modd - A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes
golang-docker-cache - Improved docker Golang module dependency cache for faster builds.
xid - Parse unicode identifiers
reflex - Run a command when files change
gin - Live reload utility for Go web servers