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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:

You can view the available command-line arguments by running the following commands:

air -h

or

air --help

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 1.25 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 -v

# 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 sh

Please 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.

docker run -it --rm \
  -w "/go/src/github.com/cosmtrek/hub" \
  -v $(pwd):/go/src/github.com/cosmtrek/hub \
  -p 9090:9090 \
  cosmtrek/air

cd /go/src/github.com/cosmtrek/hub
AIR_PORT=8080 air -c "config.toml"

For less typing, you could add alias air='~/.air' to your .bashrc or .zshrc.

First enter into your project

cd /path/to/your_project

The simplest usage is run

# firstly find `.air.toml` in current directory, if not found, use defaults
air -c .air.toml

You can initialize the .air.toml configuration file to the current directory with the default settings running the following command.

air init

After this, you can just run the air command without additional arguments, and it will use the .air.toml file for configuration.

air

For 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 8080

You 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 -- -h

services:
  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:1.25-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:
      - ./:/app

export 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

#365

[build]
  cmd = "/usr/bin/true"

Refer to issue #512 for additional details.

• Ensure your static files in include_dir, include_ext, or include_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 [email protected]:<YOUR USERNAME>/air.git

# Install dependencies
cd air
make ci

# Explore it and happy hacking!
make install

Pull 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.

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