Meet entr, the standalone file watcher

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  • entr

    Run arbitrary commands when files change

  • 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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    A Swiss Army knife for your Ecto schemas

  • This is the snippet I use to continuously test my Elixir library SwissSchema while I'm working on it:

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  • As you might have guessed, one of the main use cases for entr is to rerun tests whenever files change. I'm an Elixir engineer, and I use entr to run mix test continuously whenever I save an Elixir file.

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