Watchman

1. Serves static content.
2. Reloads and reservers content automatically when file content changes.

Works only on Linux and Unix systems.

Serve static html content

watchman server

Starts a web server at port 8000 to serve static html content.

Watch for file content changes

watchman watch

Starts a web server at port 8000 to serve static html content and reloads when changes happen to the file content.

Helps in auto reloading of changes. Changes can be previewed without restarting the server. Make changes to the html files and hit browser refresh to see the changes. Save time while development html based apps.

Options

-d for target Directory (by default current directory is considered for serving or watching)

-p for port on which the sever has to be run

[watchman] watchman -d ~/ -p 2000 server                            master  ✭
Serving from directory "/Users/foobar/"
Listening on http://127.0.0.1:2000

Build

Install stack

curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh

or

wget -qO- https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh

Download the code or use git to clone code repo

git clone https://github.com/pamu/watchman.git

or

git clone git@github.com:pamu/watchman.git

Go to project folder

cd watchman

Stack build

stack build

Stack install

in the same project root folder (inside watchman directory)

stack install

The above command will create a executable called watchman and put the executable in .local/bin folder in your home directory.

Export PATH

export PATH="~/.local/bin/:$PATH"

Now you can access watchman from you command line.