Watch mode - text files and Go file changes affecting workflow

[rokf]

Hello,

Since upgrading to the latest available version (v0.2.543) I've noticed that templ generates txt files and modifies all of the go files for each template while in watch mode.

Up until now my workflow was that I simply kept all of the watchers (including templ) and services used for development running the whole day while developing. I produce multiple commits during that time and each commit is stable - can be deployed on its own and doesn't break.

With this change now I'd have to stop the templ watchers before I can create a stable / clean commit so that they revert the go file changes and remove the txt files.

I was wondering if you have considered this before implementing the change that introduced txt files / modified go files in watch mode? 🤔

Would there be a possible solution where the go files wouldn't be edited, which would mean that I could simply ignore txt files in .gitignore and continue working without interruptions? Another alternative could be a watch mode variant that doesn't use txt files / doesn't make changes to go files, just as it was before in older versions.

Thanks!

[rokf]

Here's the workaround I'm currently using in case that anyone is interested. fd is used for .templ file search and entr is used for executing templ generate once a change is detected.

fd .templ$ $1 | entr -r -s "templ generate -path $1"

I've put this snippet into a shell script, which is then executed like sh templ_watch.sh ./shared, where ./shared would be one of the directories that contain .templ files.