Go Auto-Recompile and Reload Server on file change

Question

I know AppEngine does this, but I\'m not coding for it.

I tried using Guard from Ruby world, to listen on changes on .go files, and execut

Answer 1

You can use nodemon for this. Simply create a nodemon.json file containing your configuration, files to watch, files to ignore, and command to execute when a file changes. Something like this configuration.

nodemon.json

{
  "watch": ["*"],
  "ext": "go graphql",
  "ignore": ["*gen*.go"],
  "exec": "go run scripts/gqlgen.go && (killall -9 server || true ) && go run ./server/server.go"
}

You do require nodejs for this to work.
But its far better then any other tool I've used so far that are go specific.