WebUI and language design, learnt from tilt

[gaocegege]

Recently we are thinking about how to design the build language. tilt is an awesome tool to develop microservices on Kubernetes.

I really love its webUI. Kubernetes still lacks UI from the application perspective. You can use K8s dashboard to view all resources in the cluster. Of course, you can achieve a similar thing if you know more about auth and query magics of the dashboard.

But tilt webUI is more intuitive. You can get all status or logs of the microservices in one page.

[gaocegege]

load('ext://restart_process', 'docker_build_with_restart')
...
docker_build_with_restart(
  'example-go-image',
  '.',
  entrypoint='/app/build/tilt-example-go',
  dockerfile='deployments/Dockerfile',
  only=[
    './build',
    './web',
  ],
  live_update=[
    sync('./build', '/app/build'),
    sync('./web', '/app/web'),
  ],
)

And its extension mechanism also looks promising. You can load new functions in specific extensions if you need them