For developers, the ability to autoreload code upon any changes is nothing short of a game-changer. It not only streamlines the development process but also fosters an environment of continuous improvement and experimentation.
There are so many packages for languages such as JavaScript for such a behaviour, but I struggled to easily find a simple-to-use go version with an example.
And that’s where this post comes in, as a simple to-the-point example extracted from what I learnt while reading https://dev.to/jacobsngoodwin/full-stack-memory-app-01-setup-go-server-with-reload-in-docker-62n
We will be making use of https://github.com/cespare/reflex, which is a go package and small tool to watch a directory and rerun a command when certain files change.