Godo

Overview

Godo is an innovative task runner and file watcher designed specifically for Golang, drawing inspiration from popular tools like Rake and Gulp. As a developer, managing tasks efficiently can significantly enhance productivity, and Godo aims to streamline this process with a set of powerful features. By automating tasks such as building, cleaning, and file watching, Godo not only simplifies workflows but also enables a more dynamic development environment.

Whether you're running tasks from a parent directory or managing project dependencies, Godo's configuration allows you to create a structured and efficient task management system. It's a valuable tool for developers looking to optimize their code execution and improve their workflow.

Features

• Task Management: Define and execute tasks easily, with support for dependencies to ensure tasks run in the correct order.

• File Watching: Automatically re-run tasks whenever specified files change, keeping your development process in sync with your code.

• POSIX Style CLI Arguments: Use command line arguments following the POSIX convention for greater flexibility in task execution.

• Customizable Task Behavior: Specify tasks to run only once or set them to run under certain conditions with suffixes and option functions.

• Bash Script Integration: Execute bash scripts directly from Godo with support for executing multiline scripts and capturing output.

• Run-Time Environment Configuration: Set environment variables from the command-line to streamline the setup of your development environment.

• Process Monitoring: Godo tracks the process ID of started tasks, allowing for graceful restarts of applications as needed.

• Project Scoped Dependencies: Easily manage dependencies relative to sub-projects, helping maintain cleaner project structures.