TIL about entr, a command that lets you run arbitrary commands whenever files change.

I was working on a project where I had to run a build command whenever I saved a file. Once I installed entr (brew install entr), it took me about 5 seconds to figure out how to use it for this purpose.

find apple-news/ | entr -s 'npm run bespoke'

Any time a tile inside the directory apple-news changes, npm run bespoke gets run.

Looks like there are lots of other options for entr but I’ll probably just stick to this pattern.