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Chobs (Changes Observer) is a tool that automatically restarting your process when file changes in the selected directory. It may be you system process or your project execution. For example if you don't want to call cargo run on every code changes, you can use Chobs. From arg2u with ♥

Requirments

To use Chobs you need to install Cargo and Rust. Just paste into your terminal window:

bash curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh cargo install chobs

Usage

bash chobs <SUBCOMMAND>

Flags

bash -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information

Subcommands

bash help Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s) init Creates chobs.json config file with default settings watch Starts watching for changes

Subcommand: init

bash USAGE: chobs init

Subcommand: watch

```bash USAGE: chobs watch [OPTIONS] --exec

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -e, --exec Sets a command to execute -r, --root-foler Sets a root folder to watch. (Default - ".") ```

Examples

bash chobs --exec "cargo run -- -f -b" -r .

bash chobs --exec "node index.js" -r .

You can use it with any exec.

If your exec is very long, you can create run.sh bash or shell script for your process.

bash chobs --exec ./run.sh

Automatic re-running

Chobs watches for changes in the files and folders in your root directory and restarts your process execution. To create config file use chobs init

Config

json { "verbose": true, "ignore": ["target", ".git"], "delay": 1000, "root_folder": "../my_folder" }

verbose - enables logging (default - true)
ignore - list of directories and files you want to ignore (default - ["target",".git"])
delay - how often do you need to check for updates in ms (default - 1000 ms)
root_folder - folder to watch (default - ".")

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License

MIT