inotifywait

[idkjs]

Is there a version of this setup that can run without inotifywait which I believe is linux only?

I am on a mac and would like to run it without docker if that is possible.

Thanks.

[joseferben]

The only dependency on inotifywait should be in the Makefile for the make dev command.

inotifywait -e modify -e move -e create -e delete -e attrib -r pwd --exclude "(_build|logs|Makefile|.git|node_modules)" -qq

Maybe this could be replaced or supplemented with something like fswatch? @aronerben What do you think?

[aronerben]

Maybe this could be replaced or supplemented with something like fswatch? @aronerben What do you think?

Sounds good, from what I'm gathering, fswatch is cross-platform, so we might as well replace inotify entirely with it.

[idkjs]

Stuff I came across tyring to figure it out.
https://github.com/mirage/irmin-watcher handles fsevents
https://makeplus.net/ -> could listen to the events you want to listen to and run whatever command.

[aronerben]

Thanks for the hints, we can dig into it a little more. It is generally on the roadmap to add a more clever "hot-reloading" with incremental builds (I think that is the goal of #385, correct @Jerben?). That would make this "external" file watching business obsolete...