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Liver

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A dead simple recursive file watcher and live reloading utility that works by attaching itself to processes and matching them to files.

Installation

1. go install

go install github.com/mnafees/liver@latest

2. Manually

macOS

# arm64 (Apple Silicon)
curl -L -o liver.tar.gz "https://github.com/mnafees/liver/releases/latest/download/Liver_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz" && tar xvf liver.tar.gz Liver && mv Liver liver && sudo install -c -m 0755 liver /usr/local/bin && rm -f liver.tar.gz

# x86_64 (Intel)
curl -L -o liver.tar.gz "https://github.com/mnafees/liver/releases/latest/download/Liver_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz" && tar xvf liver.tar.gz Liver && mv Liver liver && sudo install -c -m 0755 liver /usr/local/bin && rm -f liver.tar.gz

Linux

# arm64
curl -L -o liver.tar.gz "https://github.com/mnafees/liver/releases/latest/download/Liver_Linux_arm64.tar.gz" && tar xvf liver.tar.gz Liver && mv Liver liver && sudo install -c -m 0755 liver /usr/local/bin && rm -f liver.tar.gz

# x86_64
curl -L -o liver.tar.gz "https://github.com/mnafees/liver/releases/latest/download/Liver_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz" && tar xvf liver.tar.gz Liver && mv Liver liver && sudo install -c -m 0755 liver /usr/local/bin && rm -f liver.tar.gz

# i386
curl -L -o liver.tar.gz "https://github.com/mnafees/liver/releases/latest/download/Liver_Linux_i386.tar.gz" && tar xvf liver.tar.gz Liver && mv Liver liver && sudo install -c -m 0755 liver /usr/local/bin && rm -f liver.tar.gz

Windows

Download the latest Windows binaries from https://github.com/mnafees/liver/releases/latest

Getting started

To use Liver, you need a liver.json file in the root of your directory with the following contents

{
    "paths": [
        "/some/path/or/file/to/watch",
        "/other/path/index.js"
    ],
    "procs": {
        "/some/path": [ "go run main.go" ],
        "/other/path": [
            "node index.js",
            "node index2.js"
        ]
    }
}

Then call Liver such as

liver

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