Obviously there's lots of candidates here. I've recently switched from entr or fswatch to watchexec [0], because it can restart a server, so something like this

Obviously there's lots of candidates here. I've recently switched from entr or fswatch to watchexec [0], because it can restart a server, so something like this gets me where I need to be: watchexec -cr "make && my-server" [0] https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec