Show HN: Wu – a tiny utility written in Go for running command on file changes(github.com)
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Show HN: Wu – a tiny utility written in Go for running command on file changes
https://github.com/shanzi/wu
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Wu looks nice and simple. Did you know https://github.com/cortesi/modd when you started work on Wu?
Aha, seems I reinvented a wheel again. But I think the simplicity might be an advantage of wu. modd seems to be too complex for someone to getting started at the first glance.
I've also been using entr but I think I like this better. Piping file names into entr doesn't make a lot of sense to me, I like the ability to use patterns.
I've downloaded it given it a shot and now realize I actually like it a lot more than entr because I don't have to have development environment instructions in my Deploy readme, I can commit the .wu.json file. :) Much better to have that in version control.
I've downloaded it given it a shot and now realize I actually like it a lot more than entr because I don't have to have development environment instructions in my Deploy readme, I can commit the .wu.json file. :) Much better to have that in version control.
I've been using http://entrproject.org for awhile, which accomplishes a similar task. I do love your -save flag though :)
Have you also taken a look at fresh https://github.com/pilu/fresh ?
After searched and reviewed some similar solutions like that of Gulp and Grunt (many solutions are from NodeJS community), I think writing a universal command line tool with Go might be cool.
The advantages of this command is that it does not need any external dependencies and the precompiled binary can run directly on linux and macOS. It is useful not only for running dev server with `go run server.go` or `python server.py` but also when you want to rebuild your go project after any changes of source code. It is designed to be extremely simple and I have already been enjoying it during the development of itself!
Although it is lack of unit tests yet, I think it might be good for you to try it out now :)