dead 💀

Dead simple live reloading for Go web servers

Usage

Just add a line of code like in example below:

package main

import (
	"log"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/tomyl/dead"
)

func main() {
	dead.Default().Watch(".", "templates", "server/*").Main()
	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
}

Now, if an enviroment variable DEAD (can be changed to something else) is set to watch before starting the binary, Main() will watch the the specified directories forever and re-invoke the binary with cleared ennviroment variable (Main() will return immediately if the value isn't watch).

$ go build
$ DEAD=watch ./mybin

Whenever an .html file is modified in specified directories, the re-invoked process is restarted. If a .go file is modified, go build (can be changed to something else) is executed first.

TODO

• Make it configurable what extensions to trigger on.
• Add more documentation.
• Finish this TODO list.