When I started developing websites in Go and using gin framework, it was a pity that gin lacked a live-reloading function. So I searched around and tried fresh, it seems not much flexible, so I intended to rewrite it better. Finally, Air's born. In addition, great thanks to pilu, no fresh, no air :)
Air is yet another live-reloading command line utility for developing Go applications. Run air in your project root directory, leave it alone,
and focus on your code.
Note: This tool has nothing to do with hot-deploy for production.
- Colorful log output
- Customize build or any command
- Support excluding subdirectories
- Allow watching new directories after Air started
- Better building process
Support air config fields as arguments:
If you want to config build command and run command, you can use like the following command without the config file:
air --build.cmd "go build -o bin/api cmd/run.go" --build.bin "./bin/api"Use a comma to separate items for arguments that take a list as input:
air --build.cmd "go build -o bin/api cmd/run.go" --build.bin "./bin/api" --build.exclude_dir "templates,build"With go 1.23 or higher:
go install github.com/air-verse/air@latest# binary will be $(go env GOPATH)/bin/air
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/air-verse/air/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin
# or install it into ./bin/
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/air-verse/air/master/install.sh | sh -s
air -vVia goblin.run
# binary will be /usr/local/bin/air
curl -sSfL https://goblin.run/github.com/air-verse/air | sh
# to put to a custom path
curl -sSfL https://goblin.run/github.com/air-verse/air | PREFIX=/tmp shPlease pull this Docker image cosmtrek/air.
docker/podman run -it --rm \
-w "<PROJECT>" \
-e "air_wd=<PROJECT>" \
-v $(pwd):<PROJECT> \
-p <PORT>:<APP SERVER PORT> \
cosmtrek/air
-c <CONF>if you want to use air continuously like a normal app, you can create a function in your ${SHELL}rc (Bash, Zsh, etc…)
air() {
podman/docker run -it --rm \
-w "$PWD" -v "$PWD":"$PWD" \
-p "$AIR_PORT":"$AIR_PORT" \
docker.io/cosmtrek/air "$@"
}<PROJECT> is your project path in container, eg: /go/example
if you want to enter the container, Please add --entrypoint=bash.
For example
One of my project runs in Docker:
docker run -it --rm \
-w "/go/src/github.com/cosmtrek/hub" \
-v $(pwd):/go/src/github.com/cosmtrek/hub \
-p 9090:9090 \
cosmtrek/airAnother example:
cd /go/src/github.com/cosmtrek/hub
AIR_PORT=8080 air -c "config.toml"this will replace $PWD with the current directory, $AIR_PORT is the port where to publish and $@ is to accept arguments of the application itself for example -c
For less typing, you could add alias air='~/.air' to your .bashrc or .zshrc.
First enter into your project
cd /path/to/your_projectThe simplest usage is run
# firstly find `.air.toml` in current directory, if not found, use defaults
air -c .air.tomlYou can initialize the .air.toml configuration file to the current directory with the default settings running the following command.
air initAfter this, you can just run the air command without additional arguments, and it will use the .air.toml file for configuration.
airFor modifying the configuration refer to the air_example.toml file.
You can pass arguments for running the built binary by adding them after the air command.
# Will run ./tmp/main bench
air bench
# Will run ./tmp/main server --port 8080
air server --port 8080You can separate the arguments passed for the air command and the built binary with -- argument.
# Will run ./tmp/main -h
air -- -h
# Will run air with custom config and pass -h argument to the built binary
air -c .air.toml -- -hservices:
my-project-with-air:
image: cosmtrek/air
# working_dir value has to be the same of mapped volume
working_dir: /project-package
ports:
- <any>:<any>
environment:
- ENV_A=${ENV_A}
- ENV_B=${ENV_B}
- ENV_C=${ENV_C}
volumes:
- ./project-relative-path/:/project-package/air -d prints all logs.
Dockerfile
# Choose whatever you want, version >= 1.16
FROM golang:1.23-alpine
WORKDIR /app
RUN go install github.com/air-verse/air@latest
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
CMD ["air", "-c", ".air.toml"]docker-compose.yaml
version: "3.8"
services:
web:
build:
context: .
# Correct the path to your Dockerfile
dockerfile: Dockerfile
ports:
- 8080:3000
# Important to bind/mount your codebase dir to /app dir for live reload
volumes:
- ./:/appexport GOPATH=$HOME/xxxxx
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin #Confirm this line in your .profile and make sure to source the .profile if you add it!!!Should use \ to escape the `' in the bin. related issue: #305
[build]
cmd = "/usr/bin/true"Refer to issue #512 for additional details.
- Ensure your static files in
include_dir,include_ext, orinclude_file. - Ensure your HTML has a
</body>tag - Activate the proxy by configuring the following config:
[proxy]
enabled = true
proxy_port = <air proxy port>
app_port = <your server port>Please note that it requires Go 1.16+ since I use go mod to manage dependencies.
# Fork this project
# Clone it
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/cosmtrek
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/cosmtrek
git clone git@github.com:<YOUR USERNAME>/air.git
# Install dependencies
cd air
make ci
# Explore it and happy hacking!
make installPull requests are welcome.
# Checkout to master
git checkout master
# Add the version that needs to be released
git tag v1.xx.x
# Push to remote
git push origin v1.xx.x
# The CI will process and release a new version. Wait about 5 min, and you can fetch the latest version
Give huge thanks to lots of supporters. I've always been remembering your kindness.