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A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes

14 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2016-01-20 · latest 2026-10-25

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    Modd: Flexible developer tool that runs processes,responds to filesystem changes
    story by thunderbong · 2026-10-25 · 0 comments
  2. …of it, despite frequently developing in Go for close to a decade at this point. Modd is quite nice: https://github.com/cortesi/modd But, why couldn't you just use WSL? It is one of the main selling points of using Windows as a developer…
    comment by coder543 · 2026-01-28
  3. …pattern -> command combos to easily be defined & run simultaneously from a modd.conf file. [0] https://github.com/cortesi/modd
    comment by keroro · 2022-08-15 · in Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
  4. …you correctly, then this combination of two tools from the same author will get you that: https://github.com/cortesi/modd https://github.com/cortesi/devd
    comment by frou_dh · 2022-05-22 · in Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
  5. …well. You can find more on our blog [2] if you would like to know more. [0] https://pirsch.io [1] https://github.com/cortesi/modd [2] https://pirsch.io/blog/techstack/
    comment by marvinblum · 2022-04-03 · in We don’t use a staging environment
  6. I can recommend https://github.com/cortesi/modd , it seems like its not developed anymore though
    comment by jbub · 2021-08-01 · in Air – Live reload when developing with Go
  7. This is by far the best tool for the job that I've found: https://github.com/cortesi/modd
    comment by coder543 · 2021-02-16 · in Go 1.16 Release Notes
  8. …command, however complex that may be to implement via OS interfaces. I've had good luck with modd: https://github.com/cortesi/modd/ I just tested exactly what you described, did not see any errors, and it ran my commands exactly the way I…
    comment by coder543 · 2020-07-01 · in Entr: Rerun your build when files change
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    A Flexible Developer Tool That Runs Processes and Responds to Filesystem Changes
    story by juanpabloaj · 2019-02-19 · 0 comments
  10. …like configurability, and watching/ignoring of multiple patterns to name a few convenient feature. https://github.com/cortesi/modd
    comment by junkblocker · 2017-03-14 · in Entr(1) – Run tests whenever files change
  11. …[6] https://yarnpkg.com/ [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ [8] https://github.com/cortesi/modd [9] https://github.com/substack/tape [10] https://github.com/tapjs/node-tap [11] https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/tree/rew
    comment by johncoltrane · 2016-12-26 · in Ask HN: What languages and technologies/tools are you using right now?
  12. …mine - a general purpose tool that lets you put together flexible responses to file system change: https://github.com/cortesi/modd The use case here is deep and interesting, and I don't know of any tool that gets it 100% right. HN is often…
    comment by cortesi · 2016-08-20 · in Realize – Go build system with file watchers, live reload and output streams
  13. Wu looks nice and simple. Did you know https://github.com/cortesi/modd when you started work on Wu?
    comment by johncoltrane · 2016-08-13 · in Show HN: Wu – a tiny utility written in Go for running command on file changes
  14. …up modd, a similarly focused tool for monitoring the file system and responding to changes ( https://github.com/cortesi/modd ). Modd has already supplanted gulp entirely for many of my use cases, and has replaced supervisor and a bunch of…
    comment by cortesi · 2016-01-20 · in Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for Npm Scripts