monty is a tool for doing something when files change. It can do one of 2 things, or both:

• Re-run a command (or restart a web server) kind of like nodemon, chokidar, and reflex
• Launch Chrome and reload the page as needed, kind of like livereload, but with no setup required!

monty is ridiculously simple. The whole thing could just be a bash script around inotifywait, but a bash script just isn't as cool as a Go tool 🔥 🔥 🔥

go get -u github.com/mightyguava/monty

monty echo hello world
monty java Main.java
monty go run main.go
monty python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Now monty will watch for any file changes within your current directory and subdirectories, and keep saying "hello world" every time something changes.

monty -url www.google.com

Quirik: Chrome opens in the background in a new window. You'll have to manually switch to it. I haven't figured out how to make it open in the foreground https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp/issues/171.i

monty -url localhost:8000 npm start

You can run a whole bash script. It's ok that your script exits. monty will restart it whenever you change something.

monty sh -c 'echo hello; echo world; echo i can chain forever'
monty sh -c my_super_awesome_script.sh

monty uses notify to watch the current directory for changes, and restart the command if anything changed. It doesn't care about what language your code is written in, just that you give it a command that can be executed on *nix.

monty uses chromedp to control a Chrome window, reloading it when a file changes.

• https://github.com/cespare/reflex - Really cool tool for re-running commands
• https://github.com/Unknwon/bra - Does similar things, with more flexibility but has configuration
• https://github.com/johannesboyne/monty - Does similar things, but is a node script installed via NPM, for Go (why????)