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I'm surprised not to see generic tools on this list which make use of event-based file system notifications such as dnotify and inotify. See https://github.com/
by ktpsns 9y ago
I'm surprised not to see generic tools on this list which make use of event-based file system notifications such as dnotify and inotify. See https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki or inotifywait (https://superuser.com/a/959040 https://superuser.com/a/959040) for examples.
I know this particular API (inotify) is specific to Linux (there might be similiar APIs on other OS). But it is awesome for all kind of build systems, for instance latex documents.
- btown 9y agohttp://livereload.com/ http://livereload.com/ is an excellent tool (though paid) along these lines.
- wawhal 9y agoI will think about adding generic tools along with an articles section about how hot reloading works and what are the related new technologies. Thanks for pointing out.
- anitil 9y agoOh I love inotify-wait. So many times I'll start trying to be clever, then delete the whole thing and replace it with inotify-wait