Deprecated

I don't use it, or maintain it anymore 🌹

starts

Simplify your live development workflow ❤️

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I consult as a pure frontend developer and normally have all JS / HTML generated into a public folder that we then upload to our CDN (normally S3). We have a few projects with "start": "npm run emails:live & npm run pdfs:live & npm run app:live". It was time for something simpler. Perhaps you are are same 🌹

Think of it as concurrently, nodemon and light-server merged to play well with each other 🌹

Quick starts

Install

npm install starts --save-dev --save-exact

Create a starts.ts file

import {starts} from "starts";

starts({
  serve: {
    dir "./public"
  },
  /** 
   * If you edit any of the files on the right, the command on the left executes.
   * and if we were serving something, the connected web pages reload as well.
   */
  run: [
    { cmd: "npm run emails", watch: ["src/emails"] },
    { cmd: "npm run pdfs", watch: ["src/pdfs"] },
    { cmd: "npm run app", watch: ["src/app"] },
  ]
});

Run it npm install ts-node --save --save-exact with package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "ts-node ./src/starts.ts"  
  }
}

Ofcourse you can use js / raw node if you want to. But why would you.

More

All the config options:

export type ServeConfig = {
  dir?: string
  port?: number
  host?: string
}

export type RunConfig = {
  cmd: string
  watch?: string[]
  reload?: /** Default */ 'all' | 'css' | 'none'
  keepAlive?: boolean
}

/**
 * The complete config
 */
export type StartsConfig = {
  verbose?: boolean
  serve?: ServeConfig
  run?: RunConfig[]
  /** autorun initially */
  initialRun?: boolean
}