gowatch

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gowatch

gowatch is a tool to watch for .go files changes and rebuild automaticaly

Installation

$ go get -u github.com/msalcantara/gowatch/cmd/gowatch

Usage

In you project path just type gowatch

$ gowatch

For help use -hor --help

$ gowatch -h

For version

$ gowatch --version

Pass arguments to your app

$ gowatch apparg1 apparg2

Use custon args to go build command

$ gowatch --build-flags -x,-v

Watch custon directory (default is current)

$ gowatch -d ./custon/path

gowatch restart in any .go files changes. To ignore some pattern of files use:

$ gowatch -i *_test.go

To show debug info of gowatch

$ gowatch -V

Default Config

To use an default config, create a file called .gowatch.yml or use --config flag to pass a different file name. CLI flags override values of the file.

This file can have any flag that CLI accept.

verbose: true


dir: .

ignore:
  - "*_test.go"

build_flags:
  - -x
  - -v


run_flags:
  - localhost
  - 8000

License

MIT

Documentation

Index

• Variables
• func Start(dir string, buildFlags, runFlags, ignore []string) error

Variables

var (
	//ErrCmdCompile go build command failed to compile program error
	ErrCmdCompile = errors.New("error to compile program")
)

Functions

func Start

func Start(dir string, buildFlags, runFlags, ignore []string) error

Start start the watching for changes in .go files