diff --git a/src/content/daily-email/2023-04-15.md b/src/content/daily-email/2023-04-15.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b4050520 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/daily-email/2023-04-15.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: > + Automatically running commands with nodemon +pubDate: 2023-04-15 +permalink: > + archive/2023/04/15/automatically-running-commands-with-nodemon +tags: [] +--- + +Instead of running the same commands over and over again, some of the command-line tools that I use have a `watch` mode and will automatically re-run when files are changed, however, not all do. + +Instead of doing this manually, I can achieve the same thing though using a tool called `nodemon` - a script monitor for node projects, but it can work with non-node projects too. + +Here's an example where I'm automatically re-running my PHPUnit tests using a `just test` recipe each time a file within my custom modules directory changes: + +```plain +nodemon \ + --watch web/modules/custom \ + --ext '*' \ + --exec "just test --stop-on-failure --colors=always" +``` + +I specify the files or directories I want to watch, which file extensions should trigger a restart (in this case, I've enabled all extensions), and the command to execute. + +This watches all files and run all of the tests, but I can filter either if I need to. + +As well as PHP tools like PHPUnit and PHPStan, I also use this for other things such as when creating presentation slides with rst2pdf where I can automatically re-generate the PDF whenever I update the rst file.