siddhantmadhur / bmo

Live and hot reload for any language framework

BMO

Motivation

I wanted to create a responsive front-end experience using Golang and HTML templates, and although there were tools like Air that would allow live reloading, there wasn't anything available like Vite for this specific use case

What does it do?

It builds a webserver for any framework you can imagine, runs it and creates a proxy server for you, the developer, to use. This proxy server automatically refreshes the page when it detects a new update for the user.

How to use

bmo init

This command will create a bmo.toml file for you to modify

bmo's Issues

Multi-threading issues

In general very buggy with how threads are handled but here are genuine examples

• Communication between the proxy WebSocket and runner are less than ideal
• Sometimes two threads will try to "access" the compiled binary
  

Delay in restarting web server

For some odd reason when killing the process for the web server, there is a few second delays before it does which means the program has to wait until it finishes before compiling and running

Some things could be optimized so for example the compiling and exiting could be run parallel so it doesn't infringe on each other's execution times.

Relevant Files:

• runner/handle_change.go
• runner/run.go