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Make Tangible symlinks

Mtsl listens to changes in some folder (usingChokidar) and copies changed files into another folder.

Actually, it is watcherCLI that copy files from source to destination

There are other tangible symlink packages available but every package has so many bugs. famous package iswml but that have many bugs. This package is working as required

Let's face it, sometimes symbolic links just aren't enough. Github has more than80K issues with the words "support for symlinks" in them.

Mtsl is a CLI tool that works pretty much likeln -s [src] [dest]. You first set up your links by using themtsl add -s [src] -d [dest] command and then run the mtsl service (mtsl start <linkId>) to start listening. link index can be get frommtsl list That's it!

Note that since Mtsl is based on Chokidar itdoes not support symlinks. lol.

npm install -g mtsl

# add the link to mtsl using `mtsl add -s <src> -d <dest>`mtsl add -s~/source-dir -d~/User/destination-dir

Added link: (0) /Users/username/source-dir -> /Users/username/User/destination-dir

# above command will give you link id what will use to start watching link that is addedmtsl start 0

make start symlink without add link

# it is same as `mtsl start` but it starts to make symlink without adding the linkmtsl startwithoutadd -s<src> -d<dest>

mtsl add -s <src> -d <dest>(ormtsl add -s <src> -d <dest> -skip-prompt)

Adds a link.

mtsl will not start listening to changes until you start it by runningmtsl start <linkId>.

Each link is given an unique id, you can see all links and their ids by runningmtsl list.Links are saved tosrc/links.json in yourmtsl install directory, meaning thatyour configuration is specific to thatmtsl install.

mtsl remove <linkId>

Removes a link.

mtsl removeall

Removes all link that made by usingmtsl add.

mtsl start <linkId>

Starts mtsl.

It first copies all watched files from source to destination folder and then waits for new changes to happen.

mtsl startwithoutadd -s <src> -d <dest>

Starts mtsl without add link.

it is same asmtsl start but it starts to make symlink without adding the link.

mtsl list

Lists all links.

Shows each link's id and source/destination folders.

When adding a new link Mtsl will try to detect if your source folder is a git repository or an npm package, it will then offer to ignore the ".git" and "node_modules" folders for you.

If you want to add more folders to your ignored folders first create a file named.mtslconfig.json in your source folder, this file should contain ignore directories for this folder which will notCRUD from source to destination.

In the following example we are ignoring the ".git" and "node_modules" folders:

{"ignore_dirs": [".git","node_modules"    ]}

See theContributing page.

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Numan 🚇💻

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