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caleblloyd on April 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

File watchers that rebuild a project when code changes are made. Lots of language SDKs come with these built-in, for those that don't I have found that the `chokidar-cli` npm package can be paired with a shell script to add auto-rebuild to pretty much any project in any language.

RMPR on April 13, 2020 [–]

entr[1], from their main page

    ls *.css *.html | entr reload-browser Firefox

Is a simple example of things you can do, it is also very lightweight.

[1]: http://entrproject.org/

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