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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Easily specify which commands to trigger a rebuild e.g. go generate && go build. Makes it easy to make quick changes and see the results. Colorized output. Configurable watch - directories, files, regex. Has a built-in proxy to trigger browser reloads automatically.

Tradeoffs

Config options not well documented. You have to install it as a CLI, which can cause problems if GOPATH is not in your PATH.

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