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Wutch

wutch watches for changes in the directories and runs a shell command for every change. It can also open a browser a display whatever is in the build directory, just like Live Server.

Common use case for Wutch involves writing docs with Sphinx. Wutch will watch for the changes in all *.rst files and automatically rebuild documentation. It will also open a browser window pointing to the build directory and inject every built webpage with a code that will auto-refresh that page after each rebuild.

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Wutch Demo

Installation

pip install wutch

Usage

Just run wutch in the directory where you want to watch for the changes. By default, wutch will:

  • Watch for every change in the current directory.
  • Ignore changes in the _build/ and build directories.
  • Run sphinx-build shell command for every change in the files.
  • Open a browser pointing to index.html in the _build directory.
  • Automatically refresh that page every time you change the files and shell command runs.
$ wutch

2021-04-02 23:47:06.216 | DEBUG    | wutch.config:__init__:48 - Config{'dirs': ['docs'], 'ignore_dirs': [], 'patterns': ['*.rst', '*.py'], 'ignore_patterns': [], 'command': 'make -C docs rebuild', 'build': 'docs/_build/html', 'inject_patterns': ['*.html'], 'index': 'index.html', 'host': 'localhost', 'port': 5010, 'wait': 3, 'no_browser': False, 'no_server': False}
2021-04-02 23:47:06.217 | DEBUG    | wutch.watcher:start:24 - Starting observer thread
2021-04-02 23:47:06.219 | DEBUG    | wutch.watcher:start:26 - Observer thred started
2021-04-02 23:47:06.220 | DEBUG    | wutch.server:start:44 - Server thread started
2021-04-02 23:47:06.220 | DEBUG    | wutch.server:_open_browser:133 - Opening browser at: http://localhost:5010/index.html

Stop wutch by issuing a Ctrl+C key sequence.

^C2021-04-02 23:47:25.283 | DEBUG    | wutch.threaded:run:28 - Stopping all threads on KeyboardInterrupt
2021-04-02 23:47:25.283 | DEBUG    | wutch.watcher:stop:30 - Stopping observer thread
2021-04-02 23:47:26.260 | DEBUG    | wutch.watcher:stop:33 - Observer thread stopped
2021-04-02 23:47:26.260 | DEBUG    | wutch.server:stop:58 - Server thread stopped

Configuration

Parameters

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c COMMAND, --command COMMAND
                        Shell command executed in response to file changes. Defaults to: sphinx-build.
  -p [PATTERNS ...], --patterns [PATTERNS ...]
                        Matches paths with these patterns (separated by ' '). Defaults to: ['*'].
  -P [IGNORE_PATTERNS ...], --ignore-patterns [IGNORE_PATTERNS ...]
                        Ignores file changes in these patterns (separated by ' '). Defaults to: [].
  -d [DIRS ...], --dirs [DIRS ...]
                        Directories to watch (separated by ' '). Defaults to: ['.'].
  -D [IGNORE_DIRS ...], --ignore-dirs [IGNORE_DIRS ...]
                        Ignore file changes in these directories (separated by ' '). Defaults to: ['_build', 'build'].
  -w WAIT, --wait WAIT  Wait N seconds after the command is finished before refreshing the web page. Defaults to: 3.
  -b BUILD, --build BUILD
                        Build directory containing files to render in the browser. Defaults to: _build.
  -I [INJECT_PATTERNS ...], --inject-patterns [INJECT_PATTERNS ...]
                        Patterns of files to inject with JS code that refreshes them on rebuild (separated by ' '). Defaults to: ['*.htm*'].
  -i INDEX, --index INDEX
                        File that will be opened in the browser with the start of the watcher. Defaults to: index.html.
  --host HOST           Host to bind internal HTTP server to. Defaults to: localhost.
  --port PORT           TCP port to bind internal HTTP server to. Defaults to: 5010.
  -B NO_BROWSER, --no-browser NO_BROWSER
                        Do not open browser at wutch launch. Defaults to: False.
  -S NO_SERVER, --no-server NO_SERVER
                        Do not start the webserver, just launch the shell command. Defaults to: False.

Loading order

Wutch loads configuration settings in the following priority:

  1. Command line arguments
  2. Environment variables starting with WUTCH_
  3. Configuration file wutch.cfg
  4. Default variables

Every variable can be specified in any of the sources above, thanks to ilexconf configuration management library.

For example, dirs variable that lists directories to watch can be specified in several ways:

Command line:

wutch --dirs . ../other_dir

Environment variables starting with WUTCH_:

export WUTCH_DIRS=". ../other_dir"

Configuration file wutch.cfg:

{
    "dirs": [".", "../other_dir"]
}

Wutch's documentation is built using wutch

Take a look at the wutch.cfg file at the root of the repository. This serves as a somewhat common configuration for Sphinx dependent documentation.

Wutch documentation is developed using wutch and this config below.

{
    "dirs": ["docs"],
    "ignore_dirs": [],
    "patterns": ["*.rst", "*.py"],
    "ignore_patterns": [],
    "command": "make -C docs rebuild",
    "build": "docs/_build/html",
    "inject_patterns": ["*.html"],
    "index": "index.html",
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": 5010
}

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