hotrun

hot module compiled for node.js, no need to restart server. it's useful to speed-up node.js development

Notice & Limitation

do not use it in production mode.
not support change exports variable type, as we can't convert object to function
typeof operator return object for exports that returns primitive value

Description

we don't need nodemon/pm2/supervisor any more
no special codes to inject into your codes
simply configuration

Install

local npm install --save-dev hotrun

global npm install -g hotrun

CLI Example

hotrun app.js -i 9999 -b -w src -x src/excule.js -f src/server.js

API Example

a working example see ./example.

import hotrun and configure it in your development server entry, like ./example/app.js

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const Koa = require('koa');
const emitter = require('hotrun')({
  extensions: ['.js'],
  watch: path.resolve(__dirname, './src')
});
const middleware = require('./src/middleware');

const app = new Koa();
app.use(middleware);
emitter.on('hot', () => {
  console.log('module hot compiled done!')
});
app.listen(3100, (err) => {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('app running at port 3100')
})

CLI Options

-i, --inspect [port]             Enable inspect mode on port
-b, --inspect-brk                Enable inspect break mode
-c, --config                     Specify a json config file
-e, --extensions [extensions]    List of extensions to hook into [.es6,.js,.es,.jsx]
-w, --watch [dir]                Watch directory "dir" or files, to hot compile
-f, --force [dir]                Force restart if directory "dir" or files changed
-x, --exclude [dir]              Exclude matching directory/files from watcher
-p, --use-polling                In some filesystems watch events may not work correcly. This option enables "polling" which should mitigate this type of issues
-V, --version                    output the version number
-h, --help                       output usage information

API Options

const emitter = require('hotrun')({
  extensions: ['.js'],
  usePolling: true,
  watch: path.resolve(__dirname, './src'),
  exclude: 'path/to/exclue.js'
});

options.extensions

specify which extension files to be hot compiling

options.watch

specify which source modules in folder should be hot compiling

options.exclude

specify which files should not be hot compiling

options.context

deprecated, use options.watch instead

options.usePolling

In some filesystems watch events may not work correcly. This option enables "polling" which should mitigate this type of issues

Credit

aaron.xiao

yessky/hotrun