swiftmon

Swiftmon will watch your project directory and automatically rebuild and restart your application on file changes. Inspired by Nodemon and written entirely in Swift.

Installation

1. git clone git@github.com:ChrisChares/swiftmon.git && cd swiftmon
2. swift build
3. Symlink swiftmon to /usr/local/bin with ln -s $(pwd)/.build/debug/Swiftmon /usr/local/bin/swiftmon
4. Symlink swift to /usr/local/bin with ln -s $(which swift) /usr/local/bin/swift Why?
5. Create a new project in a new directory, i.e. mkdir ~/SampleProject && cd ~/SampleProject && swift package init --type executable
6. Start watching it with swiftmon
7. ???
8. Profit

Current Limitations

These would all make excellent pull requests ;)

• Supports default directory structure by watching the ./Sources directory and optionally ./main.swift. This is the structure created by swift package init --type executable
• Does not currently run tests when they change
• Requires some awkward symlinking (no npm install -g with spm yet)
• Unable to choose files to ignore
• (Probably) Mac OS only. Haven't tested Linux yet.

Contributing

Knock out some of the limitations or write some tests and I'll love you forever