Auto reload for goji?

[zenazn]

Auto reload for goji?

[peterhellberg]

You should be able to use Gin to do reloading of Goji if you bind to the PORT environment variable like so:

port := os.Getenv("PORT")

if port != "" {
    flag.Set("bind", ":"+port)
}

goji.Serve()

I’d like this functionality to be included directly in Goji, it would be convenient when writing 12 factor apps

[zenazn]

@peterhellberg — I'm not sure I follow: how is this relevant to 12-factor apps?

In any event, I wasn't planning on writing auto-reload functionality any time soon (although I've been sort of eyeing Facebook's watchman), so a third-party tool like Gin sounds like a great way to go. I've updated bind to work out-of-the-box with Gin (it now natively respects two additional environment variables: GOJI_BIND and PORT)

[peterhellberg]

@zenazn Related to factor 3 (Store config in the environment) and the fact that many web frameworks use the PORT variable. Thank you for the quick change 👍

[peterhellberg]

And, just for posterity: It seems like fresh also work fine with Goji.

[zenazn]

Cool! Since there are a bunch of existing tools that seem to work okay, I'm going to close this issue for now.