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wgo mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für wgo in AI-Agent-Workflows.

InstallationsbefehlSicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install wgo

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#wgo

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/wg/wgo/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Watch arbitrary files and respond with arbitrary commands

Befehle und Aliase

  • wgo

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

wgo, expanded in the README as watcher-go, is a Go-focused live-reload and general file-watcher command. Its upstream description is direct: watch arbitrary files and respond with arbitrary commands, including multiple commands in parallel.

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in January 2023 and presents wgo as a response to file watchers that force commands into strings, require configuration files, or produce noisy output. The README emphasizes that the implementation is intentionally short and that core documentation starts with the quickstart.

Release metadata shows continued development through the 0.5 series in 2024-2025 and 0.6.x releases in 2025-2026. That history is young compared with older Unix tools, but the project has settled into a recognizable niche among Go developers who want a small live-reload wrapper.

Adoptionsgeschichte

wgo's adoption signal is mainly GitHub- and Go-community based rather than institutional. It is packaged for Homebrew and Nix, but its source-backed identity comes from the repository, release stream, and README positioning rather than from long distribution history.

Wie es verwendet wird

The most common use is to prefix a command with wgo so that it reruns when files change, for example rebuilding C code, running Go code, or restarting a Go server. The special wgo run mode behaves like go run but reruns when Go files change, and flags allow users to include or exclude files and directories, debounce events, poll, chain commands, and run watchers in parallel.

Because it is not limited to Go commands, wgo also fits frontend-adjacent workflows in Go projects, such as rebuilding Sass or TypeScript alongside a Go server by chaining parallel wgo commands.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

wgo is significant in the small-tool sense: it keeps live reload out of a project-specific config file and makes it a command-line behavior. For package users, that means one executable can sit beside go, make, gcc, sass, or tsc and provide a simple watch loop without adopting a larger task runner.

Zeitleiste

  • 2023-01-12: The GitHub repository is created.
  • 2024: GitHub release metadata records the 0.5.6 series.
  • 2025: GitHub release metadata records multiple 0.5.x and 0.6.0 releases.
  • 2026-05-06: GitHub release metadata records v0.6.4.

Related projects

  • Go's built-in go run is the command wgo run shadows for live reload.
  • General file-watcher and task-runner tools such as entr, watchexec, reflex, air, and make-based watch loops occupy adjacent space.

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

  • In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
  • Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
  • Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
wgocliglobales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version0.6.4
Manager aktualisiert2026-05-06
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Versionv0.6.4

https://github.com/bokwoon95/wgo

  • OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:wgo
Version0.6.4
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Paketmanager-Seitehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wgo
Homepagehttps://github.com/bokwoon95/wgo
Repositoryhttps://github.com/bokwoon95/wgo
Upstream-Dokumentationhttps://github.com/bokwoon95/wgo#readme
LizenzMIT
Quellarchivhttps://github.com/bokwoon95/wgo/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.4.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert2026-05-06T18:56:37Z
Pulseupdated
Build-Abhängigkeitengo
Bottleverfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnicht definiert
Dienstkeiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namewgo
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

wgo

nix profile install nixpkgs#wgo
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Wgo
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wg/wgo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Verwandte Tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Gleicher Workflow

  • gazeShares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, command-runner, developer-tools, file-watcher.
  • entrShares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, file-watcher.
  • fswShares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, file-watcher.
  • funzzyShares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, file-watcher.
  • leafShares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, file-watcher.
  • watchexecShares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, file-watcher.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Verwendete Quellen

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment