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by EvanPlaice 3808 days ago
Why create devd when you could have just used live-server? It automatically injects the LiveReload stub and watches the directory for changes.

I guess, if your end goal is to move everything away from the node ecosystem. To each their own.
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cortesi 3808 days ago
Well, first, I think it's perfectly fine to have multiple takes on the same problem space. This is how we progress - people try different things, and we gradually figure out what works. Live-server does a specific set of things, and devd is a different take on a slightly wider set of things, and I think that's just dandy. The overlap is far from precise, and I think there's enough room for both devd and live-server (and for the many other tools that do similar things).

Second, not everything is node. Devd has lots of uses outside of node and even outside of front-end development.

Third, I probably wouldn't have written it if I didn't believe that devd did at least some things better than the current tools (at least for some people). You should try it - maybe you'll like it, and if you don't then that's fine too. As you say - to each their own. ;)

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EvanPlaice 3808 days ago
grumble reinventing wheels grumble

Live-server is capable of a lot more than I mentioned. There's also lite-server which is geared more toward SPAs.

Anyway, if you enjoy hacking on devd I won't fault you for it.

I'm not really looking to switch to go. I'm one of those weirdos who actually really likes JS. The massive NPM ecosystem just makes everything that much more fun.

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