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Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers

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Re: Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers

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Post by gknoy »

cortesi wrote: post #15
necubi wrote: post #13

I wrote something similar, called Slinky [0], which also transparently compiles various compiled web langauges (SASS, HAML, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.). The issue with these systems is that they lie in between something like Python's SimpleHTTPServer and a complete frontend development tool like Grunt or Gulp. They're great for small projects, but have trouble scaling up. [0] https://github.com/mwylde/slinky

Slinky looks very neat! I do feel it inhabits a very different niche from devd, though. I have no ambitions for devd to compete with tools like Grunt, Gulp or Slinky. Devd has a simple job: it just serves files and triggers livereload when files change, and is completely agnostic about the build process. That means it works very well as a complement to Gulp - in fact, this is one of my primary use cases for devd. My…

This reply, and your perspectives on sharp tools, really make me smile. I'm definitely going to go use your tool, now. :)

Re: Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers

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Post by alessioalex »

cortesi wrote: post #15
necubi wrote: post #13

I wrote something similar, called Slinky [0], which also transparently compiles various compiled web langauges (SASS, HAML, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.). The issue with these systems is that they lie in between something like Python's SimpleHTTPServer and a complete frontend development tool like Grunt or Gulp. They're great for small projects, but have trouble scaling up. [0] https://github.com/mwylde/slinky

Slinky looks very neat! I do feel it inhabits a very different niche from devd, though. I have no ambitions for devd to compete with tools like Grunt, Gulp or Slinky. Devd has a simple job: it just serves files and triggers livereload when files change, and is completely agnostic about the build process. That means it works very well as a complement to Gulp - in fact, this is one of my primary use cases for devd. My…

It looks nice. I did a similar thing with a project of mine: https://github.com/alessioalex/reloadify

It serves files and does livereload as well. Can be used programatically or as a CLI: `reloadify -f static -p 8080`.

Re: Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers

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lucaspiller wrote: post #18

> Want to know what it's like to use your fancy 5mb HTML5 app from a mobile phone in Botswana? Look up the bandwidth and latency here [0] In my experience I would take this listing as a grain of salt. Maybe that's what you get on a decent business connection, but a home or mobile connection is likely going to have a much higher latency. It also doesn't take into account where your servers are - latency from Europe to…

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Re: Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers

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Post by reitoei »

necubi wrote: post #13

I wrote something similar, called Slinky [0], which also transparently compiles various compiled web langauges (SASS, HAML, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.). The issue with these systems is that they lie in between something like Python's SimpleHTTPServer and a complete frontend development tool like Grunt or Gulp. They're great for small projects, but have trouble scaling up. [0] https://github.com/mwylde/slinky

> They're great for small projects, but have trouble scaling up.

I'm pretty sure it's intended for quickly spinning up small projects, not fully-fleshed front end systems with package management, build tools etc.

I use node-static myself for quickly bootstrapping experimental front end projects

With devd, I like how you can quickly map a proxy and get live reloading out of the box.

Tidy.

Re: Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers

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Post by mcrider »

cortesi wrote: post #15
necubi wrote: post #13

I wrote something similar, called Slinky [0], which also transparently compiles various compiled web langauges (SASS, HAML, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.). The issue with these systems is that they lie in between something like Python's SimpleHTTPServer and a complete frontend development tool like Grunt or Gulp. They're great for small projects, but have trouble scaling up. [0] https://github.com/mwylde/slinky

Slinky looks very neat! I do feel it inhabits a very different niche from devd, though. I have no ambitions for devd to compete with tools like Grunt, Gulp or Slinky. Devd has a simple job: it just serves files and triggers livereload when files change, and is completely agnostic about the build process. That means it works very well as a complement to Gulp - in fact, this is one of my primary use cases for devd. My…

Do you have an example gulpfile that uses devd? I've had a lot of trouble getting connect + nodemon to work well together and would love a better solution.
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