Auto-reload webpage by monitoring files/directories, for web development.

It's a simple Go program to

• watch one or more files/directories
• tail (follow) log file
• start a websocket server and serve events

On client side, a JavaScript to

• connect to websocket server and listen to events
• reload page once file/directory changed
• display content from log file

I wanted a simple way to do reload-on-save when I was working on a PHP project.

Update config.json.example and save as config.json.

(note, directories watch are NOT recursive)

Build

$ go get .
$ go build monitor.go
$ go build ws-server

Run

$ ./ws-server && ./monitor -f config.json

• move into package.
• combine server and monitor as one.