Feature: Live reload

[rizrmd]

Hi, Great Job!

It would be nice if jiti can watch current project and live reload it when some file changes.

[szmxx]

So far, does jiti support watch mode?

[pi0]

@szmxx Not yet but you can try listhen CLI which gives you jiti powered watch mode for any dev server.

[szmxx]

@pi0 Looking forward, I will try

[noook]

This repository does not have discussions enabled, and it's not exactly an issue, more of a question / follow-up on the --watch flag usage when it comes to a Discord bot development.

I'm in the process of modernizing the tools and I immediately thought of jiti to run my app. However during development it is necessary to be able to watch and re-run the app on save instead of cancelling the process, and running it again.

@pi0 you mentioned that we can use listhen in the meanwhile, however I'm not sure whether it is the right tool for this use case ?

Another solution would be to simply use bun with the watch flag also. I'm curious what's your opinion on what's the best tool for this

[pi0]

@noook If your app is a HTTP server, you can use listhen that uses jiti and does this. If it is not, you can easily create a watcher with @parcel/watcher and inside it use a jiti import with cache disabled. Also using bun --watch is a good alternative I sometimes do that too.

I like to introduce a similar feature of the bun to jiti core for live reload but it is mainly less of a priority now and the next goal is v2 (#174) so maybe after that in 2.x 👍🏼

[ericclemmons]

I've found https://github.com/pygy/esm-reload works pretty well, too.

[pi0]

node --watch --import jiti/register should work with jiti v2. Introducing watcher would duplicate runtime efforts.