stable river
Hey everyone!
I'm happy to share with you Olive !
It's a web server proxy that enables live reload and automatic code reload when working on a "classic" server (a server that renders HTML).
You can find the docs here: https://hexdocs.pm/olive/ !
The v1 is very barebone and a proof of concept more than anything but it's a start!
Thanks to @indigo zenith for the great name suggestion! 🎉
sand sequoia
@dusky briar weren't you lookiung for something like this recently?
stable river
Don't tell me it already exists! Ahah 😅
stable river
Yeah, I saw that 😦 I need to release a v2 asap
sand sequoia
gleam docs update ^.^
stable river
I see build, publish or remove. So I can only change my readme and gleam docs publish and no need of release, tags or anything?
sand sequoia
oh yeah i was close
yes docs are separate from code releases
change em as much as you like
stable river
Nice, I'll try that then, thanks 🙂
dusky briar
Because of the nature of the code:atomic_load, any changes to your main function will not be taken into account.
May want to expand a little on this talking about stateful processes
And link any official docs
stable river
Yup, I also need to specify I'm doing so shenanigans to spawn the main process as <module>@@main:run(<module>)
stable river
🫒 olive v1.1.0 is out! 🎉
New goodies to configure main_port, proxy_port, bind address and filtering logs or not. Docs have been updated with all of the details!
stable river
🫒 olive v1.2.0 is out! 🎉
Now Olive is smart and watches for any "path" dependencies as well as the main folder! It also gives the list of folder being watched, and tells what file triggered a code reload!
stable river
🫒 olive v1.3.0 is out! 🎉
It's a minor release with better error messages and a few fixes. Now olives build your project before starting it (forgot about that!), and the output of gleam build is nicely displayed as usual! (it was caught by olive and displayed without colours and goodies 😞 ). Also, because of all the shenanigans, olive stops when a change is made in main file to force a restart from the user (a warning is displayed for that as well)
dusky briar
Awesome
opaque widget
I started using Olive last night, I didn’t get browser reload working but as a dev server it’s very nice and seems to work better than my watchexec script did 🤗
stable river
There's some limitations and maybe some gotchas that I might discover along the way.
I'm still new to Gleam and Erlang ecosystem in general but I wanted a tool to have, at least, some live reload when building a classic web server 😉
The last version should fix some bugs by the way. And I was wondering if I could add some ajax call and morphdom to replace the live reload. That could allow to keep some state while fetching the updated view from the server 🤔
mild steeple
Ooh I have a use case for this hehe
stable river
For morphing or olive in general ?
mild steeple
olive in general
reef stream
Great tool you made! I was trying to use it with the latest version of mist and I can't, due to olive using gleam_http v3 and not v4
Do you think you could update it?
stable river
I'll take a look as soon as possible 👍
reef stream
Thanks!
stable river
🫒 v1.3.1 released! 🎉
Nothing fancy, just the relaxed http version. Should now allow for v4. 🤞
reef stream
Thank you so much!
stable river
🫒 v1.4.0 released! 🎉
last mist
Could this be approach be used together with cgi: https://hex.pm/packages/cgi to have old-school php deployment by uploading files :D?
Or is CGI even not required, just use wisp and gleam on the production box and copy files over?
dusky briar
There’s no long running process with cgi so no restarter needed
last mist
There’s no long running process with cgi so no restarter needed
I meant that the cgi part restarts a long running app on request if there had been changes, if that makes sense.
stable river
Olive is a dev tool, it has nothing to do with production and how you deploy and update your app. So I'm not sure to see anything linking it with cgi. And you could use whatever you want for your deploy then, no?
last mist
Olive is a dev tool, it has nothing to do with production and how you deploy and...
I meant more the way olive works to restart a long running server when uploading a new gleam file, recompiling hot and replacing if compilation was successful.
basically the old PHP deployment story.
stable river
That exists within erlang too. You could get away with a little erlang script that just do that maybe 🤔 Doesn't need to use gleam specifically. In prod, you run erlang/javascript code, not the gleam code directly, right?
And if there's no long running process with cgi as lpil stated, then there's really nothing more to do that just copy/paste the compiled code
last mist
That exists within erlang too. You could get away with a little erlang script th...
I'd put gleam compiler on the prod box and once files are dropped it recompiles, but this is offtopic. Didn't want to highjack this here.
stable river
I'd put gleam compiler on the prod box and once files are dropped it recompiles,...
Alright, you could take a look at gleam-radiate, it does pretty much the same and you have to use it in your main function. So if you upload a new file it should do what you are looking for. There's a limitation though, it can't reload the main file (same as olive), I took inspiration from that lib
