--watch and run step?

[Maarrk]

@tsdtas

Maybe write a small shim that launches the server in a thread and then looks for filesystem changes in the source files with (your OS’s equivalent of) inotifywait?

It’s definitely nice to make your own tools, but just for convenience I’ll share what I’ve been using:

Initially entr for Linux:

echo "zig-out/bin/foo" | entr -r ./zig-out/bin/foo

Now usually watchexec for Linux, Windows and Mac:

watchexec -w zig-out --no-vcs-ignore -r -- ./zig-out/bin/foo

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EDIT: Just for completeness, both tools were mentioned in a previous thread. The difference is that now we can have the build system do the rebuilds on its own, potentially with -fincremental, and now we only watch the outputs with external tool.