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Zuriar
Zuriar

Reputation: 11754

What does ~run become in Activator?

I gather that now the 'play' commands are deprecated. I used to be able to start a play app by :

>play ~run

this would auto-compile on file changes.

So how do I do that in this new weird Activator thing?

(seriously, don't mess with something which works! Not everyone wants to interact using a UI)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 358

Answers (1)

Havoc P
Havoc P

Reputation: 8477

As far as I know, you type activator ~run

Or you can do alias play=activator and then type play ~run

Activator adds two new things, activator new and activator ui, but if you aren't using those it should be the same as play and sbt.

The play command is a thin sbt wrapper; activator is a thin sbt wrapper. ~run is just an sbt command. play/activator should be the same in this respect, except to the extent that Play itself has changed. You can also download sbt and do sbt ~run. There should be no difference in behavior between all these ways to run ~run.

For more background see:

If ~run doesn't work as you expect then it most likely isn't an activator-related issue.

Upvotes: 2

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