Fresher

Fresher is a command-line tool that builds and (re)starts your web application every time you save a Go or template file. It is like resh but fresher.

It has been forked from fresh because the author Andrea Franz set it as unmaintained.

If the web framework you are using supports the Fresher runner, it will show build errors on your browser.

Installation

go get github.com/roger-russel/fresher

Usage

cd /path/to/myapp

Start fresher:

fresher

Fresher will watch for file events, and every time you create/modify/delete a file it will build and restart the application.

If go build returns an error, it will log it in the "tmp" folder.

fresher uses ./.fresher.yaml for configuration by default, but you may specify an alternative config file path using -c:

fresher -c other_runner.yaml

Here is a sample config file with the default settings:

version: 1 # [required]
root: . # [required] the root folder where the project is
main_path: # the folder where main.go is if it was not in root. exemple: %root%/cmd/
tmp_path: ./tmp
build_name: runner-build
build_args: # build args
build_log: runner-build-errors.log
valid_ext: .go, .tpl, .tmpl, .html # the extension that it will be watching
no_rebuild_ext: .tpl, .tmpl, .html
ignored: assets, tmp # ignorade folders
build_delay: 600
colors: 1
log_color_main: cyan
log_color_build: yellow
log_color_runner: green
log_color_watcher: magenta
log_color_app:

More examples can be seen here

To see ther fresher version run

fresher -v

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request