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Stay Ahead of the Game: Leverage Chokidar CLI to Maximize Your Coding Efficiency!

Sohail Jafri on November 13, 2024

This article’ll explore a powerful setup that automates managing exports from multiple MongoDB models in your backend code. By leveraging a custo...
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sahilchaubey03

This is a game changer! I've been manually updating my models forever. Can't wait to try out this Chokidar CLI setup. Thanks for sharing

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Sohail Jafri

Do let me know if you find any difficulties

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WebDevReigns

If someone wanted to customize this further, like adding custom export formats, how difficult would that be to integrate with Chokidar?

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Sohail Jafri

No, it will be quite easy to alter the script and add any required format like js, ts or css

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Memories From

The section on implementing the script was really helpful. I'm new to managing multiple models, and this really demystified the process. Thanks for writing this!

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Sohail Jafri

Ik right its having a superpower

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ReignsEmpire

Are there any best practices you’d suggest for testing this setup to make sure it’s running as expected?

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Sohail Jafri

I would just learning a test framework like jest to do test-driven development

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SAHIL RAJESH KUMAR CHAUBEY

Great Article!

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Sohail Jafri

Hey thanks mate!!

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ReactNinja

Thanks for the clear instructions

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Sohail Jafri

Glad they were clear and you got the point

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ReignsEmpire

Thanks for the clear instructions!!!!!

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Sohail Jafri

Hey thanks for feedback