Revive

Revive is a tool for enabling hot reload in applications just with a command definition. It watches for file changes in the current directory and its subdirectories, and automatically restarts the application when any Go file is modified. like nodemon written in JS.

Installation

Downloadable binary is not available yet, but you can clone the repository and build locally using the following command:

## locally
go build -o revive

or

## globally
go install

Configuration

Create a configuration file named revive.yaml or revive.json in the root of your project with the following structure:

command: go run main.go
ignoreDirectories:
  - vendor
  - tmp
monitorFileExt:
  - .go
ignoreFileNameEndsWith:
  - _test.go

{
  "command": "node test-data/test.js",
  "ignoreDirectories": ["vendor", "tmp"],
  "monitorFileExt": [".go", ".html", ".css", ".js", ".json"],
  "ignoreFileNameEndsWith": ["_test.go"]
}

Usage

Execute the binary to start the application and enable hot reload:

## if complied locally
./revive

## if installed globally
revive