k795xo / swiftmon

Automatically build and restart your Swift executable on file changes. Like Node.js' nodemon

swiftmon

Swiftmon will watch your project directory and automatically rebuild and restart your application on file changes. Inspired by Nodemon and written entirely in Swift.

Installation

1. git clone [e-mail]:ChrisChares/swiftmon.git && cd swiftmon
2. swift build
3. Symlink swiftmon to /usr/local/bin with ln -s $(pwd)/.build/debug/Swiftmon /usr/local/bin/swiftmon
4. Symlink swift to /usr/local/bin with ln -s $(which swift) /usr/local/bin/swift Why?
5. Create a new project in a new directory, i.e. mkdir ~/SampleProject && cd ~/SampleProject && swift package init --type executable
6. Start watching it with swiftmon
7. ???
8. Profit

Current Limitations

These would all make excellent pull requests ;)

• Supports default directory structure by watching the ./Sources directory and optionally ./main.swift. This is the structure created by swift package init --type executable
• Does not currently run tests when they change
• Requires some awkward symlinking (no npm install -g with spm yet)
• Unable to choose files to ignore
• (Probably) Mac OS only. Haven't tested Linux yet.

Contributing

Knock out some of the limitations or write some tests and I'll love you forever