hotbuild mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• hotbuild

Projektgeschichte

The project is published by Wander/rustpub under the wandercn GitHub account, with the documentation site carrying rustpub branding and a 2021 copyright. The README examples show the tool creating a project-local `.hotbuild.toml` file and running a Go build command into a temporary binary before launching it.

Adoptionsgeschichte

hotbuild has a narrow package footprint compared with larger Go live-reload tools, but Homebrew packages it as `hotbuild` and builds from the upstream GitHub release archive. That makes it discoverable to macOS and Linux developers who install small Go CLIs through Homebrew.

Wie es verwendet wird

The documented workflow is to run `hotbuild initconf` inside a Go project, edit the generated build and run commands, then use `hotbuild run` while developing. The tool watches recursive subdirectories under the configured project path and can separate the watched directory from the command working directory.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package-manager people, hotbuild is an example of the file-watcher hot-reload pattern packaged as a tiny standalone Go command. It is less important as an ecosystem standard than as a representative of many small development-loop accelerators that package managers preserve.

Zeitleiste

• 2021: The project site and README examples document hotbuild as a Go hot-compilation tool with `.hotbuild.toml` project configuration.
• v1.0.5: README run output shows the tool banner and rebuild/run loop around a Go application.
• v1.0.9: Homebrew builds the formula from the upstream GitHub release archive.

Related projects

• Go's own `go build` remains the underlying compilation command in the documented examples.
• Other Go development-loop tools such as air, reflex, and fresh occupy the same file-watch-and-rerun niche, though hotbuild keeps its own simple configuration format.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hotbuild
• https://github.com/wandercn/hotbuild
• https://hotbuild.rustpub.com/
• https://hotbuild.rustpub.com/about/