Software development often forces us to manually run the same commands over and over.
👁️Gaze runs commands for you, right after you save a file.
It significantly helps you stay focused on writing code!
Gaze is designed as a CLI tool to streamline your coding process.
- Easy to use, out-of-the-box experience
- Super quick response time
- Language- and editor-agnostic
- Flexible configuration options
- Useful advanced features
- Multiplatform support (macOS, Windows, Linux)
- Efficient parallel execution handling
👁️Installation
On macOS
brew install gaze
Windows/Linux: download binary https://github.com/wtetsu/gaze/releases
👁️How to use
Gaze is incredibly easy to use.
gaze .
Then, open your preferred editor in another terminal and start coding:
vi a.py
👁️More examples
Gaze at one file. You can just specify file names.
gaze a.py
Gaze doesn't require complicated file specification options. You can leverage familiar shell wildcards like *, **, and ?. No need to memorize Gaze-specific command-line options!
gaze "*.py"
Gaze at subdirectories. Runs a modified file.
gaze "src/**/*.rb"
Specify an arbitrary command by -c option.
gaze "src/**/*.js" -c "eslint {{file}}"
Kill the previous one before launching a new process. This is useful if you are writing a server.
gaze -r server.py
Kill an ongoing process after 1000(ms). This is useful if you love infinite loops.
gaze -t 1000 complicated.py
Specify multiple commands in quotations, separated by newlines.
gaze "*.cpp" -c "gcc {{file}} -o a.out
ls -l a.out
./a.out"
👁️Motivation
I frequently write Python scripts to automate tasks. I'd create a.py, write a few lines, and then run python a.py. Often, the result wasn't perfect, so I'd edit a.py again and re-run python a.py.
This cycle repeated endlessly...
I realized I was constantly switching between my editor and terminal, typing the same command over and over again. It was a huge waste of time and energy!
That's why I developed Gaze: to automate command execution and eliminate this repetitive, manual process.
Learn more at: https://github.com/wtetsu/gaze
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