emk
commented
7 years ago There are several general categories of things we might want to watch or monitor in a typical development session:
- Project-level source code in
podsandconfig. - Container source code in
src. - Services which fail. At the very least we should print bright red text saying HEY YOUR APP IS BROKEN AND I CAN'T FIX IT.
I propose a command that watches a mounted source and restarts the container when files change.
This would, by default, watch all files in the dir, excluding what's in
.gitignoreIt would also be nice to configure it to watch a given file, directory, or glob. In node apps, this configuration would probably look something like
dist/**/*.jsThe restart itself would probably have to be debounced because lots of file changes can happen at once.
Some containers can auto-reload their own source code, but that can be a lot of work to set up, unreliable, even dangerous in certain languages and environments.